The Health Council believes that all children should be vaccinated against the RS virus in their first year of life. This cold virus can make them very ill. Protection is also possible via vaccination of soon-to-be mothers, but the council prefers the injections for the children. This should lead to more children being helped.
Becoming Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) was never a girl's dream for Pia Dijkstra (D66). When she was approached last week to take over from Ernst Kuipers, who had suddenly left for an unknown work destination, she agreed. Despite the polarized (political) climate and even though a caretaker government is not supposed to make new policies. But she doesn't just want to mind the store. "I think we can still solve and tackle a few things," she said.
The government’s plans to cut another 500 million euros from the youth care budget are “draconian” and irresponsible, according to State Secretary Maarten van Ooijen of Public Health. All cost savings measures that can reasonably be taken in youth care are already being implemented, he told NOS ahead of a parliamentary debate on the youth care budget.