- There are very many who say that this is the drop, now I shit in this region, says Cecilia Nordenson, chief safety representative for Västerbotten County Medical Association.

Since 2018, doctors in Skellefteå and Lycksele have had the opportunity to save more of their compensation hours for on-call work than the agreement made possible in Umeå, for example.

In Skellefteå and Lycksele, doctors have also had to save their hours of training from before 2018, as the staffing situation has made it difficult to take time off to a large extent.

However, after an addition was made to the central agreement between the Swedish Medical Association and SKR, Sweden's municipalities and regions, the Västerbotten Region intends to change this.

On Monday, the region announced that all earned compensation for on-call work that is not taken on leave will be paid after one year.

This means that some will have years of saved spare hours paid out this November.

Some have thousands of hours saved.

- The basic problem is that there was not enough staff in Lycksele and Skellefteå to be able to take the hours off.

Many want to be able to get it out on time and you do not want to get it forcibly paid as it is now, says Cecilia Nordenson, chief safety representative for Västerbotten County Medical Association.

"Sees serious risks"

She says she understands that the region wants to get rid of its debt, but wants to see a different solution than paying everything in a lump sum in November.

- Since they went out with this information on Monday, we have drowned in conversations, people are from fleeing cursed to resigned and desperate.

There are a lot of people who say that this is the drop, now I shit in this region.

I see serious risks for healthcare in southern Lapland and northern Västerbotten, says Cecilia Nordenson.

Brita Winsa, director of health and medical care in the Västerbotten Region, announced on Wednesday evening that they had called Västerbotten County Medical Association for a hearing on Thursday morning.

- I do not want to anticipate it, so I can give more information tomorrow, Winsa says.