Medisch Centrum West

- Season 6

(1992)

Robin proposes to Nel and she accepts. But later that day, he loses her daughter Vera at a funfair. Ingrid's parents are concerned when she tells them she is pregnant. Roelant Brouwer is seriously ill and transferred to MCW.

Ingrid has complications with her pregnancy and her parents appear to know why. Victor decides not to have Roelant operated on and takes him into his own home. The investigation of Vera's disappearance points to a known pedophile.

Astrid witnesses a young track runner collapsing and soon discovers she has been using steroids. Victor is advised to take some time of following the death of his son Roelant. Reini implements a stop on admitting new patience because of the staff shortage. Nel confronts the last person who saw her daughter before her disappearance, Jan Liebrechts.

Jan becomes very suspicious when Eric diagnoses a patient with terminal cancer when just months before nothing could be found. Ingrid identifies herself with a patient suffering problems of the womb who might be a DES baby like herself.

Jan forces Eric to resign his job. Nel has lost all hope of ever seeing Vera again. Alberts hires a new doctor to replace Victor - Baron A.J. Hoekstra van Walgraven, who turns out to be a male chauvinist.

Nel finds out Vera has been taken to America to be with her father. Arend-Jan wants a private practice with financial help from Maurice Alberts and Eric Koning. Two seriously ill young men become fast friends when they share a room.

Arend-Jan refuses Joyce the doctor's position she was promised by Simon. A young married woman confides in Astrid that she's been prostituting herself. Reini takes a patient who's been abused by her husband into her own home.

A pregnant woman ends up in MCW after her father pushed her down a flight of stairs. Liza is immediately suspicious about the family relationship. Reini is surprised to find Lucy working for Eric at the grand opening of MedCo.

Reini is surprised to learn that Hetty, with whom she has been sharing her home, is a lesbian. Astrid brings in a young girl with many bruises. Both parents blame each other for beating the child.

Ingrid's court case against the manufacturer of DES begins. Dick thinks his relationship with Reini has always been difficult because she might have preferred women all along. The rivalry between MCW and MedCo deepens.

Three people, including a pregnant woman, are hospitalized because of a gas leak at a local factory. After appearing on local television, Liza is offered a job presenting a medical programme. Dick is leaving for America and Hetty is moving out, just as Reini realizes she has feelings for both of them.

Jan is upset about all the blunders being made at MedCo. But he also starts to show feelings towards Astrid, which is exactly what Ingrid had been fearing. Liza begins her Television career presenting 'Rechten Op Antwoord'.

A mother loses her son Bart in an accident and grows attached to another child who receives Bart's heart in a transplant. Annelies Rietschoten is being urged by her husband and child to stop working.

Mirna, the troubled young girl whom Ingrid used to take care of is back in MCW. Annelies wants a divorce from her possessive husband Joep. Liza is displeased that Victor is helping out at work again.

Liza is taken by the plight of a seriously ill baby boy and decides to devote an episode of her TV show to his case. But when Eric turns the show into another commercial for MedCo, she resigns. Jan is back with Ingrid, but also seeing Astrid behind her back.

Joy is shocked to learn William Stevens is selling babies from foreign women to Dutch couples at MedCo. Anke meets a man who used to be a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, just like her father.

When a heart patient dies thanks to William Steven's incompetence, Jan vows to bring down MedCo once and for all. But in private he is still cheating on Ingrid with Astrid. Reini helps a young mother deal with her drug addict boyfriend.

Ingrid has just lost her close friend Hetty when she learns that Jan chooses for Astrid who's is pregnant by him. That night, both Jan and Astrid are shot, and Jan dies. The murder weapon turns out to belong to Eric.