ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Het Nederlandse cruiseschip m/v Hondius vaart de haven van Rotterdam binnen. Het schip kwam tegen 10.00 uur aan en moet nog een klein half uur varen naar de aanlegplek, meldt het Havenbedrijf.

Het schip, dat is getroffen door een uitbraak van het hantavirus, heeft nog 27 opvarenden aan boord. Onder hen zijn 25 bemanningsleden en een arts en een verpleegkundige. Een deel van de bemanning gaat in de haven in quarantaine. Geen van hen heeft voor zover bekend verschijnselen van het virus.

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Forgotten psychiatric patients are resurrected with imagination and compassion in this extraordinary book

Cork Mental Hospital, also known as Our Lady’s, was once the longest building in Ireland: a monster of 19th-century gothic, much added to before its closure in the 1990s, that stares from the north bank down to the River Lee and the city beyond. In recent years, a lot of the complex has been turned, predictably, into apartments. A developer’s website now invites you to “Live comfortably, live conveniently, live with us”.

This, surely, is a spectral sort of invitation: hard for “us” not to conjure, amid bright mockup interiors, the fretful shades of the unwell – and the unwilling. When Doireann Ní Ghríofa – celebrated poet and author of the nonfiction A Ghost in the Throat – began exploring the derelict site several years ago, she recognised it straight away as a place she might herself, but for historical fortune, have ended up. Said the Dead is an intimately researched but also wildly imaginative study of lives (mostly female) lived and often concluded during the hospital’s first 70 years or so.

There’s plenty of charm in the low-budget inventiveness of this low-budget murder mystery set in a Wetherspoon’s for interstellar truckers

Its eyes and aspirations eternally bigger than its budget and reach, this British sci-fi film provides the answer to an unlikely question: what if someone remade 2011’s Source Code in a rundown outpost of Wetherspoon’s? Amid reported unrest between neighbouring planets Atopia and Cho-Hacha, mumsy anti-terror agent Alana Toro (Zoe Cunningham) receives orders from a hologrammatic James Cosmo to track down and bring in a troublesome rebel group. Her mission stalls, however, when she walks into a bar for interstellar truckers, where the film’s horizons shrink and – thanks to a time-loop device – our heroine gets several goes at interrogating the same skeleton crew of patrons and trying to resolve a convoluted and stubbornly uninvolving murder mystery.

Along the way, flickers of B-movie ingenuity and invention catch the eye. The grimy, greasy set design (courtesy of Jamie Foote) conceals some of the budgetary limitations, meaning that this is a rare modern sci-fi that inhabits a palpably physical, non-pixellated space. Costume designer Ciéranne Kennedy Bell clearly had immense fun dressing this troupe in the sort of cyberpunk finery that is a crossover between Red Dwarf and Claire’s Accessories. The score, by Christoph Allerstorfer and James Griffiths, is that of a far more expansive and assured production. Alana herself is a promising pulp creation – a leather-clad, purple-wigged Miss Marple who gets to pull out a space blaster every now and again – even if Cunningham, with her air of a school secretary who’s just uncovered a tuck shop scam, seems more than faintly miscast.

Voor patiënten die weinig of geen Nederlands spreken, voelt het of zij binnen het zorgsysteem van het kastje naar de muur worden gestuurd. Daarom weet het HMC in Den Haag: taalbarrières overstijgen is cruciaal voor goede zorg. „Alleen als je het kan begrijpen, hebben we een goed zorgsysteem.”