Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
first aid
Nijmegen
Red Cross
tropical heat
Vierdaagse
volunteers
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 13:30
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Extra Red Cross volunteers called in for busy Vierdaagse first aid posts

The first aid posts along the route for the second day of the Nijmegen Vierdaagse are so busy on Wednesday that the Red Cross had to call in extra volunteers, a spokesperson for the Red Cross said to NU.nl.  The day started out with 75 first aid volunteers working at the four first aid stops along today's route. Another 25 were called in due to how busy the stops were. According to the spokesperson, patients coming in mainly fainted due to the heat, though there are also many blisters. Fainters get priority. People with blisters are advised to walk on to the next stop if possible, or they have to wait. "Participants must keep eating and drinking well." According to the Vierdaagse organizers, 1,206 participants dropped out on day one. A higher percentage than in the previous three years.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Rutte: Current lockdown will be gone by July; Terraces could reopen March 31
  • Train collides with van killing driver
  • Retailers go to court to re-open stores
  • Dutch Health Council recommends AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for over-65s
  • Sixteen cases of South Africa Covid strain in Gorinchem outbreak
  • Acute care leader: "Race against time" in 3rd coronavirus wave; Covid hospital total stable

Top Stories

  • Rutte: Current lockdown will be gone by July; Terraces could reopen March 31
  • Dutch Health Council recommends AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for over-65s
  • Acute care leader: "Race against time" in 3rd coronavirus wave; Covid hospital total stable
  • Proof of negative test results could help reopen NL faster: Covid think tank
  • 28 arrested at anti-lockdown protest in Amsterdam
  • Netherlands extending travel alerts to April 15; Child swim lessons to restart soon: Reports

© 2012-2021 NLTimes.nl, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact