On April 28, SVT News West was able to reveal that new intensive care units were opened at Sahlgrenska Hospital, given the coronas center. This, despite the long-standing quest to keep that hospital completely free of covid-19.

The field hospital, which was prepared just for intensive care covid 19 patients, has been emptied. With the creation of new IVA seats indoors, the "tent" is not needed right now.

- Preparedness remains, as far as I know. It is not so that one should remove the field hospital. After all, there may be so many people who need intensive care in the future that we have to have patients there again, says Magnus Gisslén, chief physician at the infection clinic at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

human Resources

He confirms that the patients have been transferred to Sahlgrenska Hospital. Covi-19 patients are now at IVA sites in both Mölndal; Eastern and Sahlgrenska. According to Magnus Gisslén, an argument for relocating patients from the field hospital also has to do with human resources.

- It is not possible to have staff on too many units. Without concentrating resources. If you have then opened indoor places with adequate IVA seats, it is preferable in front of the tent, which in some way is a reserve if things are not enough, he says.

The current assessment is that the tree units now in use will suffice.

- Four will probably be difficult to handle as it looks now anyway, says Magnus Gisslén.

Risky move

Moving IVA patients is a complicated and risky process, but the benefits were considered in this case.

- When patients are so severely ill, they do not want to move them unnecessarily. And you don't. Without it, when it is really needed for a variety of reasons. But it has been handled in a good way, and to me, we have certainly not had any mortality during transport, says Magnus Gisslén.

Doctors have previously sounded alarms about serious shortcomings at the field hospital IVA Kronan. It is even said that the operation inside the tent could pose a patient danger.

- This is a great experiment. You play with people's lives, said a senior physician working on the intensive to SVT News West.