A man of Sudanese origin had died as a result of a stroke, which is not given the right priority and where an ambulance nurse considered the man to have engaged in "cultural fainting".
The region considered that the man was not subjected to discrimination - but the district court follows the DO's line.
The region is sentenced to pay discrimination compensation of SEK 80,000 to the man's estate.
The husband's wife receives SEK 30,000 in discrimination compensation.
In addition, the region must pay the DO's legal costs.
Read more about the background here.
Disadvantaged
The district court writes that it has been shown that the ambulance staff disadvantaged the man "by dismissing his symptoms of lowering consciousness as simulated".
This meant that he was treated worse than anyone else would have been in a comparable situation.
In retrospect, according to the court, it is clear that the man had suffered a brain haemorrhage when the ambulance staff treated him.
"The recorded alarm call at the court, which does not possess any medical expert knowledge, has given the impression of a person who is difficult to carry, sometimes fainted, who has difficulty speaking."
Cultural fainting
But the ambulance nurse wrote in the medical record that the man was then alert, and further that he "lies down and plays unconscious" but wakes up to pain stimuli.
It also says that the man "chirps" and does not want to say much, as well as "cultural fainting ??"
The patient received the second lowest priority level (yellow) on the journey to the Eastern Hospital.
The district court points out that there is a big difference for a patient to be prioritized as yellow instead of orange (the second highest priority).
"An orange priority patient should have emergency care immediately while a yellow priority patient can wait."
And the man had to wait, more precisely for an hour and a half before he received adequate care.
By then, the cerebral hemorrhage had already caused major neurological damage.
After a long period of care, he died in the suites of a pneumonia.
Discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity
The Gothenburg District Court considers that it has been established that there is a direct connection between the man's ethnicity and that he was not given the right priority. The fact that the ambulance nurse stated that he suspected that it was a question of "cultural fainting" is considered to indicate that the patient's degree of consciousness was not assessed on the basis of medically proven method but on the basis of ethnicity: "The note on cultural fainting is directly linked to stated discrimination."