On Friday during a meeting, the ambulance staff and the Ambulance Association were told that four ambulances will be removed in Jönköping County. It is about the only ambulances available in Aneby and Mullsjö. In addition, one is removed from Värnamo and one from Eksjö.
- In many parts of the county, there are already long waiting times for the ambulance. If four are lost, there will be even longer waiting times, says Henrik Johansson.
What are the risks of removing ambulances?
- It can create frustration and anger in patients and their relatives if it takes a long time for the ambulance to arrive. 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.
"Must make priorities"Mats Bojestig, director of health in Jönköping County, believes that they need to move nurses from the ambulance to the hospitals in the county. Therefore, they will temporarily remove four ambulances in the county.
- We are in the middle of a crisis and then we need to look for where we need the staff most, he says.
The ambulance association believes that longer waiting times lead to angry patients. What do you say about that?
- I think our population really understands that this is a difficult situation for healthcare and that we must make priorities, says Mats Bojestig.
" B is a work environment risk"Henrik Johansson asks himself about the region's explanation.
- We have been alarmed for several years and have come up with constructive suggestions on how they could strengthen their unprepared preparedness, so I have to understand that they now want to drain ambulance care on resources. There will be a work environment risk called if ambulance personnel are to be evicted in the county for 24 hours in a row when simultaneously removing several ambulance units, says Henrik Johansson.