With a maternity ward closed in Lycksele until week 4, before Christmas, the regional management gave an assignment to two investigators, the consultant Anders Sylvan and the chief physician Sofie Jakobsson, to review whether it is possible to find some new solutions to get the business started.
Right now it is very uncertain if and when the department can open again.
There is a shortage of both midwives and doctors, while the recruitment process is very slow.
During the afternoon, both regional management and politicians heard what the investigators had come to during the rapid investigation.
- I cannot answer what is in the report.
I have received an oral report so it is difficult to say, concrete proposals will come more in the future, says Anna-Lena Danielsson (S) when she is interviewed by SVT after the drawing of the report.
Wears on the staff
In the assignment to the investigators, the regional management wrote that the alternative of sluicing personnel to Lycksele from Umeå and Skellefteå risks leading to more redundancies and thereby threatening operations in the entire county.
- We have been doing it for two years.
It puts a lot of strain on the staff, so we need to find other, more long-term solutions, says Anna-Lena Danielsson.
Like what?
- Own staff would of course have been the best.
But there are also proposals to work with midwife-led childbirth here in Lycksele, such proposals we must continue to work on.