It was in September that the man had been treated at the Specialist Care Department at the Medical Clinic in Umeå and had been in contact with the palliative care team.
The man was discharged from the hospital and traveled on a stretcher in a taxi with oxygen to a short-term accommodation in the municipality of Vindeln.
Five miles took the next four hours
The journey was only five miles, but took three hours and 40 minutes.
Why the trip took so long is unclear, according to the notification to IVO, the Swedish Care and Welfare Inspectorate.
- Actually, it is the hospital that must report this incident to IVO, but when I did not receive the results from the hospital's own investigation, I chose to report it myself, says Fausta Marjanovic at Vindeln municipality.
Criticism of discharges
She believes that the lack of care places at Norrland University Hospital can be an explanation for why it turned out the way it did.
- I feel that sometimes discharges are done very quickly, they don't think about the journey home and what happens when the patient gets home.
Sometimes needles and accesses have not even been taken out at discharge, says Fausta Marjanovic.
SVT Nyheter Västerbotten has sought the operations manager at the Medical Clinic in Umeå for a comment, without success.