In early March, Isabel Josephson was a fully healthy choral conductor at Adolf Fredrik's music schools. Then she could not imagine that in the next moment she would fall ill with covid-19 and that the disease would keep her firm grip on her for over nine weeks.

On day 14, Isabel went in urgently for sampling, including lowering and blood pressure. In the Stockholm region, such samples have been centered on so-called infection nodes to relieve individual health centers.

Patients are sent around

But Isabel needs further care now. The fever does not go down and she has developed tremors and cognitive problems. Isabel's doctor has determined that she needs further sampling, but her health center does not receive coronary-infected patients. Therefore, an attempt was made to send her to the tent outside Karolinska in Huddinge.

- The doctor where ripped his hair to so many patients in the same situation that I was sent there by the health centers. But as long as it is not urgent, they cannot help with any sampling, says Isabel Josephson.

Many in the same seat

Usually, patients are sent from health centers to external sampling units. But neither Unilab's and Karolinska's laboratory, which usually assists medical centers in central Stockholm with sampling, welcomes patients with coronary symptoms. Instead, they are referred back to the health care provider.

- It feels like nobody knows what to do. It is obvious that my doctor wants to take tests, but he is stuck in a step 22, says Isabel.

Isabel is not alone. When we ask the question in a facebook group for coronas infected, we get overwhelming response. A nurse of 1177 testifies to many patients in the same locked position and even healthcare personnel agree with the picture of confusion about the directives. The result is that many corona sufferers risk lasting but as a result of a prolonged period of illness.

The health center: "We do not know where to send the patients"

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Hear Jakob Nowakowski, Head of Operations at Cityakuten Medical Center, about the frustration of unclear directives. Photo: Private