No ambulances to VUmc Amsterdam this weekend due to staff shortage
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The Amsterdam VUmc hospital cannot receive ambulances all weekend. According to a ruling that by not getting the roosters around. It was therefore decided to let ambulances out to the other location of Amsterdam UMC, the AMC.
The shock room of the VUmc is also not available this weekend. That is the space where trauma processing takes place, such as traffic victims. People who come on their own can still go to the hospital, the words say.
The ambulances will divert to the other location of the Amsterdam UMC from to hospitals Elsewhere until 08:00 on Monday morning.
No consequences for patients
This has no further consequences for patients. “We handle cases, only the classification of care is slightly different.”
It is more common to take measures because of staff shortages and illness. For example, ambulances will leave the Langeland Hospital in Zoetermeer in the evening and at night from 1 October due to staff shortages. The Antonius Hospital in Sneek closed one of its four operating rooms in August due to too many sick employees.