Gunilla is not alone in having her surgery postponed, and according to figures that SVT has taken note of, the number of non-emergency operations has decreased by 72 percent in Värmland as a result of the prioritization made during the corona crisis.

Tobias Kjellberg health care manager at Region Värmland believes that assessments are made after each patient.

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Tobias Kjellberg from Region Värmland explains why the situation is as it is. Photo: SVT

Statistics have been taken from SVT from SPOR, the Swedish Perioaptive Register.