očito nizozemski zdravstveni sustav ima svojih rupa,
barem koliko možemo procijeniti ovako iz daljine.
jednom mi je prijateljica, koja već 15ak godina živi u NL, rekla da bi ona rado neku sredinu između njihove pretjerane ležernosti i naše pretjerane interventnosti kad je zdravstvo u pitanju...

no ovo dolje je vrlo bitna stvar u vezi cijele ove priče i treba to uzeti u obzir kao kontributor ovakvim statistikama (bilo bi zanimljivo znati u kojoj mjeri):

This latest EU report does not reflect any results contributable to the measures that the government has already taken in the Dutch maternity profession. This includes pay increases for midwives in problem neighbourhoods, accelerated training to combat shortages, and the introduction in 2005 of twenty-week scans, which were previously not standard in the prenatal process in the Netherlands.
Studies predict that the introduction of 20-week scans will result in a four percent reduction in deaths within the timeframe covered by the research, which is from 22 weeks into the pregnancy until four weeks after the birth.
The prior absence of these scans as standard procedure meant that birth defects and hereditary conditions often remained undetected until after the legal gestation period for abortion. In other EU countries, these scans have been standard practice much longer and therefore any critical problems with the foetus discovered much earlier. Most parents faced with life-threatening defects choose for abortion; figures not included in this report.
zatim ovo:

The ethical and medical decisions taken by Dutch doctors are often quite different to those in other EU countries. Doctors in the Netherlands will generally not undertake intensive treatment for premature babies (24 to 25 weeks) with low survival expectancy. In the 2003 survey, there were 600 more deaths in the Netherlands than the EU average. This is thought to explain 200 of them.
Dr Hens Brouwers, paediatrician from the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht said in 2004, “In other countries these babies possibly also die, but they fall outside of the statistics”. This is because the deaths occur outside the time parameters of this EU research.
plus ovo
In fact, the Netherlands sees a quarter more instances of multiple births than the average in other EU countries.

Smoking is also cited as a contributor to the poor statistics, with 13.4 percent of Dutch women continuing to smoke during their pregnancy.