Three days later, Jacqueline Van Peteghem, a 91-year-old resident at the Christalain home, was sent to UZ Brussel, a nearby hospital, where she was tested for COVID-19. The Doyens assumed Van Peteghem would remain hospitalised for treatment and to prevent the disease from spreading to scores of other residents. So, on March 27, paramedics in hazmat suits delivered Van Peteghem, on a stretcher, to the door of Christalain. The society is not a government agency, doctors there note, and it never intended to deny hospital care for the elderly. They said that nursing-home staff sought hospital care for terminally ill patients who needed to be comforted into death, not dragged to the hospital.

Source: bd News24 August 09, 2020 08:15 UTC