Healthcare workers will stop working for two minutes at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday to protest against violence. In these two minutes of silence, they will commemorate an employee of a mental health institution in Heerlen who was stabbed to death at work last month.
One person died in a fire at a psychiatric clinic in Poortugaal, near Rotterdam in Zuid-Holland. The clinic treats many people sentenced to institutionalization after contact with the law. The emergency services first reported the fire at the clinic on Kijvelandsekade shortly after 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Emergency services evacuated the clinic, accommodating the patients elsewhere on the terrain. Firefighters managed to get the blaze under control within the hour, though it took hours longer to actually extinguish it.