A nursing post will open on the site of the old Sint-Jozefskliniek in Ostend with an extensive range of nursing care. Both residents and tourists can go there. From June 15, the nursing station on Nieuwpoortsesteenweg will be open every day, 7 days a week. Kataline Dendooven, Wit-Gele Kruis West Flanders: “It is actually a location where the patient comes to the nurse, and not the other way around as in traditional home nursing. The patient is therefore mobile, can move to the nursing station and can receive almost all care here.”
Relieve pressure in emergency rooms and general practitioners
The city of Ostend, like many seaside resorts, also knows that summer is busy for healthcare. Björn Pannecoucke, councilor for Care and Welfare Ostend: “This will also reduce the pressure on emergency rooms, where people sometimes come for an injection. But this is also positive for general practitioners, who are also under pressure during the summer season. Even for the first aid posts on the beach. Because there too, questions for wound care or an injection sometimes come in, and that is impossible there.”
The nursing station works by appointment and will remain open until mid-September, or possibly longer.