Dutch military to help transfer patients from country’s hardest-hit region
The Dutch military is stepping in to help transfer
coronavirus patients from the hardest-hit region in the Netherlands to
hospitals elsewhere in the country.
Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld tweeted that military
logistics specialists will be deployed Saturday to help with transfers between
hospital intensive care units.
The decision to deploy the military came after
hospitals in the hard-hit Brabant region of the southern Netherlands said they
are struggling to cope with all the cases.
The head of infection prevention at the Amphia
Hospital in the city of Breda Jan Kluytmans told national broadcaster NOS that
“hospitals in Brabant can’t handle on their own the stream of patients we
expect in the short term.”
The Netherlands has confirmed around 3,000
coronavirus cases, including 106 deaths.
