Belgium has more than half a million long-term sick people, but one large group is missing: even the government does not know how many sick civil servants there are

Belgium has 576,643 long-term sick people. A staggering figure, but the reality is even worse. A gigantic group is missing from those statistics: the half a million permanent civil servants in our country. Not a single long-term ill teacher, police officer or train conductor is included in that official figure. HLN therefore pulled all kinds of strings to uncover that one missing figure: how many permanent civil servants have been ill for more than one year? The absurd conclusion: even the government itself doesn’t know.

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