The IJsselmeer hospital group is to be taken over by a commercial company, making it the second hospital organisation in the country to come into private hands, health minister Ab Klink has told MPs.

The new owner is the MC Groep, which operates a string of private diagnostic centres and is owned by former radiologist Loek Winter.
Friday’s Volkskrant reports that 300 of the IJsselmeer group’s 1,200 workforce will lose their jobs when the MC Groep reorganises the hospital group’s operations.
The IJsselmeer group, which runs hospitals in Lelystad and Emmeloord, has been in serious financial trouble for some time and hit the headlines in September when it emerged that operations had been carried out in theatres which were not sterile.
The hospital group has debts of some €25m, of which €14.6m will be shouldered by health insurance group Achmea and €9.5m by local and national government, reports the Financieele Dagblad.
How much the MC Groep is paying for the takeover is unclear, the paper said.
The first Dutch hospital to be privatised was the Slotervaart hospital in Amsterdam in 2006.