During a press conference on Tuesday, Health Care Minister Acko Ankarberg Johansson (KD), Ebba Busch (KD) and the Sweden Democrats' social policy spokesperson Linda Lindbergen presented an investment in maternity care.
The National Board of Health and Welfare is tasked with drawing up a plan for maternity care, the authority must, for example, look at the model of midwife-led births.
This has been highlighted as a solution for Lycksele BB which is being closed due to a lack of midwives and doctors.
"Reopen maternity clinics"
Last week, the government presented an investment in maternity care where SEK 1.6 billion is allocated to the country's regions for development efforts.
SEK 150 million is also set aside to strengthen accessibility to maternal health care and maternity care in rural areas.
- It is to reopen maternity clinics, it can be about preserving clinics that would otherwise close down and introducing more care places in existing clinics, says Ebba Busch (KD), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Nutrition.
In the video you hear Ebba Busch and Acko Ankarberg Johansson about the investment.