The strained situation is partly due to an increase among covid-IVA and regular IVA patients.

- If you think about a year ago, the number of ordinary intensive care units was very low.

Then we have seen during the autumn that it has increased again and gone back to a normal charged IVA, says Per Berglund, division manager Länssjukvården and continues:

- We have a different situation today.

We have a large amount of regular intensive care that we have to cope with in parallel with an increasing covid intensive care,

See more in the clip above about the strained situation in intensive care in Norrbotten!