Eleven-year-old Cornelia Wåhlander has been waiting for her operation for almost a year.
Pediatric surgeon Cathrine Gatzinsky talked about the long care queues in Monday's Aktuellt.
- Walking around with discomfort and waiting for an operation is extremely difficult and difficult for an adult, and for children it becomes even more difficult.
An entire family will be affected by this uncertain wait, she says and explains that they are worried about which ones but it can give the children.
- We know that children are at risk of suffering from disabilities in the long run when they have to wait that long, deteriorating quality of life and affected development.
We know that children who get a tube in the ear have a reduced speech development, which affects the small child very much socially.
"Need to operate even more"
How do you think when you have to make priorities?
- We make priorities all the time and now we do it daily.
We are extremely happy that we have performed all emergency and semi-emergency operations, but we are very concerned about the growing queue for care.
What needs to be done?
- Firstly, we need to get our staff back to pediatric care so that we can start operating as usual again.
When we do that, we need to operate even more.
We also need help from the National Board of Health and Welfare to create an overall picture and look at pediatric care and how the regions can be supported.
We have an obligation to ensure that the children are not affected, says Cathrine Gatzinsky.