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MPs change position on IC lottery, ask minister to rethink age criteria Photo: Depositphotos.com MPs do not, after all, want a ban on age being used as a selection category if there is no more space in intensive care and have asked hospital care minister Tamara van Ark to rethink her plan. MPs from three of the four coalition parties plus most of the opposition now say they do not want the government to press ahead with legislation, even though most voted in favour of the idea earlier this yea...

Photo: Depositphotos.com All non-urgent healthcare scheduled to take place at Dutch hospitals and clinics in the coming weeks is being suspended in order to free up staff to work in acute care services, as the number of coronavirus patients increases. Scheduled treatment which must take place within six weeks – such as cancer-related operations and organ transplants – will go ahead as planned, but minor ops which can be delayed are being cancelled, medical care minister Tamara van Ark said ...

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