One week before the parliamentary election, the leaders of the four largest parties in the polls - NSC, VVD, GroenLinks-PvdA, and PVV - debated migration, dental care, and healthcare in a debate on SBS6 on Wednesday. In a separate debate in The Hague, candidates of the VVD and CDA faced fire over the Netherlands still providing Israel with parts for their F-35 fighter jets used to bomb Gaza.
About 1,000 people gathered in Heerlen on Saturday afternoon for a demonstration to preserve the emergency room (ER) and the hospital block of the Zuyderland Hospital in the municipality of Limburg. The hospital wants to restructure the emergency room and the hospital block and move them to Zuyderland in Sittard-Geleen in 2030. According to the hospital, there is no escape from this plan due to the ever-increasing shortage of staff.
A 53-year-old woman from Sittard is suspected of murdering her 78-year-old mother with an overdose of insulin, a spokesperson for the judiciary confirmed to De Limburger. People involved told the newspaper that the woman was helping her mother commit suicide. Assisted suicide is illegal in the Netherlands unless a doctor does it within the parameters of the euthanasia law.