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Quote:Ambulances are taken out of service - in the middle of the corona pandemiclink
In the middle of the corona crisis, Jönköping County gets rid of four ambulances.
According to the South East Health Region, this is necessary. However, the ambulance association
warns that the change could have serious consequences.
During Friday it was announced that four ambulances will disappear from Jönköping County until further notice.
These are the only ambulances available in Aneby and Mullsjö as well as one from Värnamo and another from
Eksjö. The nurses from the ambulances should instead be put to work at the hospitals in the county.
The message was met with resignation and anger by the ambulance staff. Henrik Johansson, chairman of the Ambulance Association,
is critical of the decision.
- How can you in Christianity during a disaster come to the idea not to arm, but instead to disarm, Johansson asks rhetorically in SVT .
According to Johansson, the decision risks angering patients and relatives when they call an ambulance and are forced to wait a long
time before arriving. Upset relatives also risk making work difficult for the ambulance staff, he believes.
- We have heard from our colleagues who are in the middle of the pandemic in southern Europe, that when you come to an alarm after
two hours or more, there is a tremendous anger and frustration that the ambulance staff must take care of before they can do their job,
he says. .
Has long been alarmed about poor readiness
Henrik Johansson states that the Ambulance Association has for several years been alerted to poor preparedness and has made
constructive suggestions on how it could be strengthened. He understands that the region now wants to "drain ambulance care
on resources".
Now the result is a work environment risk "called duga", Johansson adds, adding that "the ambulance personnel are thrown out
in the county for 24 hours at a time while several ambulance units disappear".
Don't worry about the criticism
Mats Bojestig, director of health in Jönköping County, does not worry about the criticism from the Ambulance Association but
believes that those in need of ambulance will have long-term indulgence.
- I think our population really understands that this is a difficult situation for healthcare and that we must make priorities, says
Bojestig.
The nurses should be relocated
According to Bojestig, it is necessary to remove the ambulances until further notice. The corona crisis requires re-prioritization,
he says, and the nurses will be relocated from the ambulances to the hospitals in the county.