A woman with suspected stroke had to wait five hours to see a doctor

The woman entered the emergency room on the evening of the fourth of January this year with a headache. She then got morphine against the pain, drip and her head X-rayed.

Then it took about five hours for the woman to see a doctor, which the Inspectorate for Health and Care believes is far too long.

The woman was then told that she had suffered from a "minor brain haemorrhage" and would be sent to the Academic Hospital in Uppsala.

IVO is also critical that no monitoring was documented in the emergency. The lack of documentation means, among other things, that it is unclear whether, despite her health condition, the woman was allowed to go to the toilet several times in the emergency, something she herself claims in her report.

At three o'clock at night, the woman was moved to Uppsala where she was operated on the following morning.

IVO is also critical of the information the woman received when she returned to Mälar Hospital's stroke department for care after the operation.

Among other things, another doctor should have been consulted to answer the woman's questions about the medication, says IVO.