SEK 60 million.

It is the cost of emergency care and subsequent care for people in Stockholm who were shot in the years 2020 and 2021. The costs also spilled over into 2022, shows a roughly estimated calculation from Region Stockholm that SVT Nyheter has seen.

Almost 100 people each year were treated for gunshot wounds at the region's hospital.

Excluding people who died, the cost was around SEK 300,000 per patient.

In the past, the region has sounded the alarm and been clear that the development must be broken so that the number of gunshot wounds decreases.

But at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, shootings have instead become part of everyday life in recent years.

- We have shootings constantly and have had it for many years, so for us it is almost business as usual, says Gunnar Sandersjöö, head of the Trauma Center at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, about the recent acts of violence.

Millions of costs in Malmö and Gothenburg

Region Skåne has also made a rough estimate of the care costs at Skåne's university hospitals in Malmö and Lund, where in 2020 eleven gunshot victims were cared for and in 2021 nine gunshot victims.

When the region uses the same calculation model as in Stockholm, the bill is almost SEK 6 million for the two years.

"Detailed data from patient records"

The Sahlgrenska hospital in Gothenburg has previously investigated the healthcare costs for all shootings in Gothenburg between January 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014 – a period when the city was shaken by a wave of violence. 

Then the care of 58 people who were shot during the reviewed period cost SEK 6.1 million.

Excluding the ten who died, the cost per person was SEK 130,000.

It includes ward care, surgery, intensive care and x-rays.

Unlike Region Stockholm's calculation, aftercare was not included in this survey.

- We started from detailed data from patient records and therefore reviewed each shot individual.

The majority of them were admitted for care after emergency treatment, although most had relatively minor injuries, associate professor Hans Granhed, one of the people responsible for the study, told Göteborgs-Posten, when the newspaper reported on the results.