The surgeons' criticism: Nothing has been done to solve the queues at Sunderby Hospital

Since the pandemic started, many operations in Norrbotten have been canceled and the queues are among the longest in all of Sweden.

Regional Councilor Kenneth Backgård therefore wants the region to procure operations for SEK 500 million.

But surgeons at Sunderby Hospital are now critical of the fact that the region has not presented a plan for how to successfully use all 13 operating rooms available.

- We demand that we at least get back to where we were before the pandemic.

Re-employ, improve working conditions, work with schedules and salaries so you get back to where we were before the spring of 2020, says Christoffer Odensten.

Queue formation is growing

The Norrbotten region believes that there are no staff to staff the operating theaters.

The chief physicians Christoffer Odensten and Marcus Sundén point them out and many colleagues are willing to work extra to solve the gender in the short term, and that with the activities that now exist, the gender continues to be built on.

- What they have been told about after the summer is that they send patients to other care providers, but we have not received any signals what types of measures would be taken here to return to a fully functioning surgery here at Sunderby Hospital, says Marcus Sundén.