Doctor in Blekinge infected by covid-19

The doctor who works at the Blekinge Hospital should have tested positive for covid-19 at the end of last week.

- The doctor is now at home until it is healthy and for as long as prescribed from the recovery according to the guidelines, says Maria Gunnervik, vice president of the medical association in Blekinge.

Has there been a risk that the doctor has infected patients or other staff?

- No, there is nothing we know anyway. We should go home at the slightest symptoms and what I know the doctor should not have worked with symptoms, says Maria Gunnervik.

According to the Medical Association, the situation has been handled according to the guidelines that exist and Maria Gunnervik thinks that the region's work on the safety of the staff is working well at present.

"I think the region works very actively with hygiene and routines. That we procure so that we have protective equipment where it is needed. From the medical side, I think we have what we need," she says.

SVT News Blekinge has sought representatives from the Blekinge region, but has only received answers from the infection protection physician Bengt Wittesjö via e-mail that he does not respond to individual cases due to patient confidentiality. In the email he writes:

“Everyone who is infected with a generalized disease becomes subject to so-called infection tracking when trying to find out how that person may have become infected, if others may have been infected at the same time and which that person may have been exposed to the risk of infection. The latter are then informed about which symptoms they should pay extra attention to and how to act in that case. "

In total, there are 21 confirmed coronary cases in Blekinge, three of which are hospitalized and one of them in the intensive care unit, according to the latest information on the Blekinge region website. An older woman has died as a result of the virus.