5,586 assignments were received from SOS for the ambulance service in week 49. This is 14% more assignments than week 46, according to the figures that SOS Alarm sends to the region.
Emil Skoglund, who is a safety representative and works for the region's ambulance service AISAB, is concerned that an already pressured ambulance staff is now forced to work even harder.
Many assignments belong in primary care
It is mainly influenza, covid-19, RS virus, winter vomiting (calicivirus) and slip injuries that he sees are the most common reasons why people have alerted the ambulance.
To some extent, he is critical of the fact that some assignments actually belong in primary care.
- We experience that we go on a lot of prio 1 alarms where patients are examined and assessed by us, but then have to stay at home because they do not need emergency care, he says.