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More and more patients in Lelystad are avoiding care because the IJsselmeer Hospital is bankrupt in their city. This is what various general practitioners in this region say in the NPO Radio 1 program News and Co and in the local media.
There are no hard numbers on this problem, but doctors almost daily deny that patients refuse. to go to municipal hospitals with their ills because they find transportation too expensive. According to News and Co this problem arises mainly in Lelystad because it is a relatively poor municipality.
Transportation to the hospital is only partially reimbursed and in some cases by insurers. There is also a municipal system, but only the poorest group is eligible.
Pulmonary Complaints
"I will not travel 30 kilometers on my scooter," Otto Hekman said. The patient with lungs was referred to Harderwijk with his complaints, but feared not to see or see his wife, who also drives a scooter, upon admission. "We have been married for 55 years, my wife has never been alone."
Hekman's wife, who suffers from similar problems, also spent two weeks at the hospital and then at Lelystad. Hekman came and went with his "scooter" every day, but did not see it happening with a new recording of one of the two discs in Harderwijk.
Discussion
Problems like Hekman's are common, says GP Lenneke van. Montfort in News & Co . The general practitioner has only five times "discussed a referral". She says that she says more and more often that patients can not get to the hospital in another city.
"On Monday, I had a 50-year-old diabetic man, who had to be admitted with an infection, but he thought that the trip to Almere or Harderwijk was too expensive, his family had no problem. I do not send him back for nothing, and now I'm waiting for him to be sick enough to be eligible to go to the hospital with an ambulance. "
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