The trial around the controversial face mask deal between Sywert van Lienden’s company and the government started on Monday morning amid great interest in the court in Amsterdam. Van Lienden and his business partners Camille van Gestel and Bernd Van Damme were present, along with their lawyers, former employees of the Stichting Hulptroepen Alliantie (SHA), and other interested parties.
It is extremely painful that outgoing Minister of Health Ernst Kuipers is not providing money for treatment centers and treatments for patients with long Covid complaints, director Diewke De Haen of the patient organization PostCovidNL said this after Kassa reported on the matter. According to De Haen, it is important that the existing knowledge about the disease is centered in one place so that the estimated 90,000 Dutch people with very serious complaints can be helped.
Preparations are underway in the Netherlands for an extensive European study aimed at determining whether existing, readily available, and affordable medications can alleviate symptoms in long Covid patients, NOS reported on Friday. The research will initially focus on commonly used and inexpensive drugs, including those for diabetes.
Tired of waiting for subsidies from the Dutch government, over 40 doctors and scientists from five academic centers will jointly research the cause of Long Covid with private funding. They have put together four research groups, which will start working next month, financed by the Long Covid Foundation, the Volkskrant reports.