Zierikzee Hospital closes its doors due to staff shortages and rising costs | Domestic

The disappearance of the Zierikzee branch had been in the air for some time and was met with great criticism in the area. But there is little choice, says the Adrz.

“We are really being overtaken by reality and we are simply no longer able to run all the programs at three locations,” says chairman Pieter de Kort of the Adrz board of directors.

The hospital says it is now looking for new ways to keep specialist medical care accessible to the residents of the area. Adrz does this together with the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland and general practitioners from the area.

Zierikzee residents will soon have to go to Goes or Vlissingen. Although Adrz is now terminating the lease, it has not immediately disappeared from the Victoria clinic. The hospital has six months to gradually transfer care from Zierikzee to Goes and Vlissingen.