VUmc in Amsterdam closes emergency dept at night

Amsterdam hospital VUmc will not be offering emergency help between 8 pm and 7.30 am from next week, because of a lack of staff, local broadcaster AT5 reported. Apart from people with heart problems, and patients who are already being treated by the hospital, people in need of emergency care will have to go to the sister hospital AMC. The hospital had earlier tried to solve the problem by recruiting extra staff and transferring staff from other departments, according to...