On Monday morning came the news of the first coronary-related death in Kronoberg County - a caregiver at the age of 90 had died in the disease in Alvesta. In the afternoon, the city epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told us that the spread of infection in elderly care is a major problem in Sweden.
At the union council municipal, you receive questions from worried staff.
- There is concern among our members. They are out in the front line and are doing their very best based on the conditions they have, says Charlotte Karlsson, union representative for the Municipality of Alvesta.
- What we can do is to ensure that the employer does its part and meets what the staff need. Our safety representatives are out in the workplaces to ensure staff safety.
"We fight"At present, they have not received any indications of shortcomings in security work.
- We know there are risks. We really want to fight to keep the infection away and at the same time provide the best possible care, says Arnold Lennartsson, medically responsible nurse at Alvesta municipality.
Do you have the resources you need?
- Yeah, we're working on it. When it comes to protective equipment, there is a constant work on developing protective equipment. One problem is that everyone should stay at home with symptoms, we may have 20-30 percent absence. A lot of work is being done to fill those gaps, he says.