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Management at Brussels' hospitals have said that the ongoing government negotiations threaten access to healthcare and are calling on politicians to take responsibility and wrap up the government
As Thursday marks the five-year anniversary of Belgium’s coronavirus shutdown, some are calling for a commemoration, others a memorial and others a formal evaluation of the long-term impact of the
A touring ambulance that provides social and medical assistance to Brussels' most vulnerable residents has helped 50,000 people, as the service celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
Belgium’s National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance, Inami, will no longer reimburse telephone consultations with general practitioners, it has announced.
Fourteen years after a ban on indoor smoking in bars and restaurants, almost one in 10 Brussels establishments still allows it, according to an investigation by Dutch-language media outlet Bruzz.
Belgian public health agency Sciensano has said that this year’s flu epidemic is the worst of its kind since the Covid pandemic.
Despite a ban on the sale of nitrous oxide - or laughing gas - in Belgium, the number of recovered nitrous oxide cylinders in the Brussels region is increasing significantly, according to the late
The warning level for respiratory infections in Belgium has been raised from code yellow to orange, according to health minister Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit), meaning many healthcare staff are ba
Belgium’s "mutuelles" – social security companies that give out sickness and health payments – had €1.2 million in government funding withheld in 2023, because they did not do enough to help the l
