The Norrbotten region is in a state of strengthening

- It is true that we are in such a strained situation now and we may need to move staff between different units.

We will go out with more information about this later, says Emma Bergström Wuolo, press officer at the Norrbotten Region to SVT.

Strained mode

The Norrbotten region has previously been in staff mode and the spread of covid-19 continues to spread and makes the situation in healthcare strained.

Here you can see what the covid distribution looks like in the county's various municipalities.

Action to be able to plan better

The Norrbotten region has been in staff mode for some time now.

On Monday, it was decided to go into reinforcement mode.

- We do this to have a better opportunity to plan our resources in such a way that we can handle the care that we have to manage, says Anna Pohjanen, division manager for county healthcare at the Norrbotten Region, to Piteå-TIdningen.