Brand Poperinge: outpatient clinic and academy measure damage
Katelijne Vanbeselaere, Jan Ypermanziekenhuis Ypres: “The fire started upstairs, the water came down, so we are here in the outpatient clinic with quite a lot of water damage. The extent of that damage has yet to be measured. The insurers, the experts are still in the works.”
They do not take patients in an outpatient clinic, they only come for consultation. If they had an appointment now, it will be postponed or moved to the main campus in Ypres. Certainly no one can go here until September 4. “A lot of cleaning will have to be done, also inspected. Because the medical material that is here cannot simply be used again. It will have to be tested according to all necessary standards, because it is medical material. Or it will have to be replaced become.”
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At the Art Academy, about twenty classes are currently unusable. Only after cleaning will it really become clear how big the damage is, like in the computer class. Stefanie Vandewalle, director of the Poperinge Art Academy: “It is about a computer class with a number of recent Mac computers, including cameras. Also instruments that were fortunately in a case or in a case. And once that case has been cleaned, there will be there is little damage to it. There are pianos that may have been damaged. The worst is perhaps the offices of the management, which have been completely destroyed.”
In some places it will take months before everything is clean again. But despite everything, they want to start again on September 1.