Hear the hospital director about patient safety in the clip above.
During the autumn, the hospital saw how the number of patients increased.
These were acute patients in surgery, orthopedics, medicine and also a peak of RS virus.
During October, the activity that handles somatic, ie physical care, had an occupancy rate of over 100 percent on average every three days.
Chief physician Lise-Lott Norrman is critical and believes that the care at the medical clinic was not patient-safe due to the high occupancy.
- It is terrible for the patients and very sad.
This is how the hospital meets the risk
Hospital director Boubou Hallberg believes that there is always a risk of overcrowding.
To monitor the situation, he says that the hospital has meetings twice a day to balance the situation within the hospital and between units.
- For the emergency specialized inpatient care, the care places we have at SÄS today are sufficient.
Despite what the staff is alarming about?
- In the hump we had in October, it was not enough at the medicine clinic.
But the whole system SÄS managed to accommodate that hump by us working in other ways.
We must be somewhere on 92, 95 percent occupancy of the entire hospital to have the best healthcare.
20 years ago, the occupancy rate at Sweden's hospital was 80 percent. Are there researchers who think that what we have today is too high?
- It may be that it is a bit loud.
But there are also studies that show that you get better efficiency.
When we look back when it was 80 percent, we had longer care periods and fewer people per care place.
Following the pressured situation at the medical clinic, the hospital has appointed a working group to analyze what happened.
- Would we have done something different?
But above all, look ahead, how do we dimension the hospital in the right way, says hospital director Boubou Hallberg.