If they have seen the benefits of centralizing care anywhere, it is in the Princess Máxima Center. That is why medical director Rob Pieters agrees with the minister’s decision to reduce the number of children’s heart centers from four to two. “We just don’t understand that Utrecht was not chosen,” he says. The Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, where the children’s heart center of the UMC Utrecht is located, is connected to the Princess Máxima Center via a footbridge. Children with cancer who also need medical attention for the heart can therefore be helped more easily.
Director of the Princess Máxima Center celebrating her anniversary: ’Centering child cancer care has enormous advantages’
