At the health center Medicinkonsulten in Lycksele, it has been noticed that several of those who get vaccinated with them are not registered in the municipality.
Folkbladet was the first to report on this.
Elisabeth Björnsdotter Rahm testifies that people call around and check where they can get vaccines.
Then they book in where it is possible to then call additional places to try to book an earlier time, with the argument that they already have a booked time since before.
- Then they call around to other health centers and ask if they can get an appointment earlier.
They are ready to go far.
People are so desperate now and insanely tired of waiting.
Then you are prepared to do everything to get this vaccine syringe, she says.
At the health center in Lycksele, a couple from Stockholm who stayed in the municipality for four weeks to wait for the second syringe have been vaccinated.
"Our patients have to wait longer"
Vaccines are delivered based on how many people over the age of 65 are listed at each health center, in order for it to be as evenly distributed as possible.
But when people who are not registered in the municipality book in, municipal residents may have to stand back.
- If it is then the case that there are people from other health centers, then it is a mistake towards our patients, says Elisabeth Björnsdotter Rahm.
So there is a risk that people will push ahead?
- Yes, it will be so, because we must not refuse either, as long as they meet the criteria.
Elisabeth Björnsdotter Rahm believes that it can also be problematic administratively, when people take doses in different municipalities.
- It feels a little crazy.
We get vaccines based on how many listed patients we have and if there are other patients and want to be vaccinated, our patients have to wait longer.