The lack of doctors and midwives forced the region to extend the closure over Christmas and New Year even before Christmas.
Before Christmas, the director of health and medical care Brita Winsa and the regional director Tommy Svensson also gave the investigators Anders Sylvan and Sofie Jakobsson the task of investigating what can be done to be able to keep the delivery open.
The work must be carried out quickly and must be reported by January 9 at the latest.
Both doctors and midwives are missing
But Erika Broman Häggblad believes that it will take a miracle to be able to open again after week 4. Right now between eleven and thirteen full-time midwives and at least three doctors are missing, according to her.
- The only thing that could solve it is to start ordering people from the coast to work in Lycksele, both in terms of midwives and doctors.
But then I think we will have a terribly difficult time in the entire county.
In the assignment to the investigators, which SVT Nyheter Västerbotten has taken note of, the regional management also states that the alternative of closing staff to Lycksele risks leading to more layoffs and thereby threatening operations in the entire county.
"The political goal is for it to be open"
Anna-Lena Danielsson (S), chairman of the health and medical care board, will be able to see the investigators' report on Monday afternoon.
- I hope they saw that we did what we should have done.
If there is something we haven't done, we want to get a picture of what we could do.
My expectation is that there will be more to do.
But she cannot give any information about whether labor can open again after week 4.
- No, it's difficult to comment on, I don't know how the recruitment went.
But the political objective is that it should be open, but we must respect if there are problems.