#Verpleeghuizen are hard hit by the coronavirus. They turn out to be true hotspots of Covid-19. Residents get sick and die disproportionately frequently, staff are rapidly disappointing symptoms of illness. The nursing home where the father of GP Marion de Bruin and the mother of columnist Marcel van Roosmalen lived. It closed because of the coronavirus and the dementia residents have been transferred. In the TV show Op 1 De Bruin and Van Roosmalen talk about the situation in the nursing home prior to the forced closure.



NRC, the newspaper where Marcel van Roosmalen has a column, summarizes the broadcast and the outpourings of De Bruin and Van Roosmalen:
Staff walked in “a kind of butcher's apron and with a baggy mouthcap on”. Although, according to the care institution, sufficient material was available, this was not present in Mook. De Bruin showed a picture of a messy bench with improvised protective equipment. De Bruin was allowed to walk to her infected father's apartment. When she made a comment about that to a nurse, it turned out that he didn't know that the old man had been tested positive. She had repeatedly walked in and out unprotected that morning. The cleaners, by the way. De Bruin does not blame the staff: “With the risk of a corona infection, they go to my father anyway to give him a drink or to take him out of the poop. They walk around crying and don't know what to do anymore.”

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The chilling reality in nursing homes