Belgium
10:29 11/01/2021
Members of Belgium’s Covid-19 Special Commission listened to damning assessments of the handling of the crisis by the authorities of the Brussels region when representatives of three major Brussels hospitals gave their testimonies in parliament last week.
The commission, tasked with determining whether mistakes were made in the management of the first wave of the epidemic, heard accounts of drastic action being taken due to lack of protective equipment, failures by ministers to act in time to prevent a second wave, and directives to carry out only essential care. I m going to make remarks, said Marc Noppen, managing director of UZ Brussel located in Jette, at the outset of the hearing, not reproaches because I don t know any country in the world that was perfectly prepared for what we went through.