According to the Lex Sarah report, the staff must have violated confidentiality, let the residents eat until they vomited and said that the residents had diagnoses with which they were not diagnosed.

According to the municipality's own investigation, there have been 22 different types of incidents at the accommodation that may be or constitute a risk of misconduct.

- The most important thing for me as a politician is to make sure that this can not happen again, said Tomas Vedestig (SJVP), chairman of the social committee, when SVT interviewed him then.

Ivo closes the case

Ivo now announces that it is closing the case and states that the care provider has taken several measures:

  • to remedy or eliminate the malpractice without delay

  • identified the underlying causes of what happened

  • taken and planned to take measures to prevent something similar from happening again

In the clip below, you hear the unit manager respond to the alleged misconduct.

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Unit manager Karl-Erik Harnesk is criticized for not having acted when the staff told about the situation at the LSS accommodation in Övertorneå.

Hear his answer in the video above.

Photo: Erica Larsson / SVT