Confidence in the regional management is as if blown away in Lidköping.
The municipal council calls the region's group office a castle in the air.
The group office should be severely reduced and not the hospitals, she said.
- The group office is like a castle in the air.
There are so many administrative costs and they are only getting bigger and bigger, says Ulrika Gartman Blom (M), chairman of the municipal board.
Tried to calm down the protesters
The Swedish National Board of Health's chairman Anna-Karin Skatt spoke and was met from time to time by scattered boos.
The 3,000 protesters did not trust her message that emergency medical care is not threatened in Lidköping.
- At least I tried to calm them down.
Lidköping's hospital exists and we have no other ambitions, says Anna-Karin Skatt (S), chairman of Skaraborg's hospital's board.
The announcement this week – no proposed closure of the emergency room at Lidköping hospital – did not reassure the residents of Lidköping and western Skaraborg.
Nor that it should now be investigated whether the hospital can have more operations.
The former chairman of Skaraborg's hospital, Pär Johnson (L), is critical and told Nya Lidköpings-Tidningen that precisely more operations can reduce the emergency flow.
Has previously fought for the hospital
The hospital in Lidköping has a catchment area of 85,000 people and has 700 employees.
The residents of Lidköping have fought for their hospital and emergency care several times before.
As early as 1994, emergency medical care was to be moved to Skövde, but that did not become reality.
In 2012, it was time again and there were new demonstrations and collection of names.
29,000 then signed for the hospital's preservation.
In the clip, you can see more from the demonstration and what the municipal and regional politicians say about the hospital's future.