Healthcare personnel must work long-term close to people in the risk group to receive the vaccine, according to the Swedish Public Health Agency's recommendations.
But what this means is what the regions make different interpretations of.
In Halland, the municipality's "close to care" staff have received vaccines in phases one and two and other care staff in phase two.
This includes healthcare staff in the prison service, according to the Halland region.
Different assessment
The Västra Götaland region has chosen not to prioritize the prison service's medical staff for vaccines.
But according to the Healthcare Association, most other regions have already given vaccines to this group.
This is how Anna E Olsson, press manager for the Healthcare Association, writes in an email.
"Now I have looked around with colleagues within the union and /.../ it is probably only the region of Västra Götaland that does not prioritize vaccinating vaccinating nurses in the prison service - we have not heard from other prison staff in other regions that it would be so in other places ”.
The employed medical staff at the Kumla Prison and Probation Service, in Örebro County, have also been vaccinated.
- They were vaccinated a long time ago, they were given before the inmates, says Jacques Mwepu, head of the prison service.
"Staff not a priority group"
Sandra Winkler, trade union representative for the Swedish Medical Association and a nurse at the prison in Gothenburg, states that colleagues in Skåne, Örebro and Gävleborg, among others, have received vaccines.
- We follow the recommendations from the Public Health Agency, where the staff is not a priority group.
On the other hand, the inmates, says Kristine Rygge, vaccination coordinator in Västra Götaland.
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That the staff who vaccinate the inmates should be vaccinated first is obvious, says Sandra Winkler, nurse at the prison in Gothenburg and specialist representative. Here she explains why, and gets an answer to the criticism from the Västra Götaland region's vaccination coordinator. Photo: SVT