Sunday, January 22, 2017

85-year-old man had to wait in the emergency room – in three days – the Express newspaper

The 85-year-old man was difficult given to Danderyd hospital.

But he had to wait three days in the emergency department before they found a care place to him.

“It is horrendous and totally unacceptable,” says Johan Styrud, the chairman of the Stockholms läkarförening, who also works at Danderyd hospital, to SvD.

the crisis in care around Stockholm has been in the news heavily the last time.

A crisis that became even more evident during the christmas and new year, and also clearly visible in the holiday season.

Which resulted in overcrowding, sjuksköterskebrist, closed care beds, cancelled operations and staff ends.

Several hospitals have gone up in the so-called stabsläge, where the amounts of the planned procedures and treatments have been postponed in order to clear the emergency mode.

Long waits

Also, waiting times have become longer and longer.

Which meant that the patients simply had to stay overnight at the emergency services.

In many cases, it has taken several days before a patient has been entered, and received a care place.

But the most extreme case may be the difficult medtagne 85-year-old man, who last week had to wait more than 72 hours at Danderyd hospital emergency department.

” the emergency services are not organized to check and monitor the patients and distribute food and medicines. Where should you act rapidly, and then, the patient should proceed to surgery, a department, or sent home, ” says Johan Styrud, the chairman of the Stockholms läkarförening to SvD.

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"Goes on a loose line"

” We go on a loose line and sometimes it is only the providence of God, that patients do not die for us. It is indecent to Stockholm’s patients and taxpayers.

the Goal of the guarantee is that 90% of patients should be offered treatment in the emergency room within four hours.

Several hospitals in Stockholm have their own maximum limits of eight hours. It applies to all who should be put on a ward.

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