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There is a commotion in the health services in Bergen. After Brita Øygard, temporary municipal chief doctor, has retired and people have lined up, the health council criticizes itself on behalf of the municipality for how the municipal doctor’s role has been organized.
Less than three weeks ago, Bergen’s chief infection control physician, Karina Koller Løland, resigned after eight months in the job. She believed that during the pandemic she had never been placed in a way in the organization that would allow her to get work done efficiently.
In recent weeks, Bergen’s municipal chief physician and chief infection control physician, agency director Brita Øygard, took a week off social work.
She writes that they have been “demanding weeks for many good colleagues and me” for Bergens Tidende.
It occurs after weeks of criticism and after all the office employees have resigned.
OUTPUT: Brita Øygard, temporary municipal chief physician in Bergen, is absent due to demanding weeks for her colleagues and herself. Photo: Håkon Vold
After the last two in the municipal chief’s office also left before the weekend, city council politician Mikkel Grüner (SV) described it as a dire situation.
On Monday morning, Health Councilor Beate Husa and City Director Kjell Wolff, among others, addressed a press conference on the situation at the health service in Bergen at 12 noon.
– Øygard has made a formidable effort and has now also assumed the role of municipal chief physician. This agency would never have achieved this without good cooperation at all levels. I am very happy and proud of that, says health advisor Beate Husa at the press conference in Bergen.
– We have full capacity to handle the corona epidemic, he says after the commotion around the role of the municipal chief doctor recently.
The position of director of infection control will now change in case of crisis management.
– I want to make sure that there are no organizational things preventing people from working as infection control doctors in Bergen, says Husa, who suggests that infection doctors should be able to report on their recommendations before the city council makes its decisions.
Deputy Director of Emergencies Annette Corydon is now serving as deputy chief physician for infection control.
Harald Hauge will be acting city chief physician next week.
She denies, however, that she has been informed of a culture of fear in the ØDH department (24-hour instant help unit). This has been reported in the press after several of them left their positions.
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However, the Health Agency admits that the organization after 2015 has not been good.
– The function of municipal chief doctor has not been organized in an optimal way, says Husa.
– It is important that the competence of municipal doctors emerge to an even greater degree and benefit even more clearly the entire municipality, says Husa.
She promises to make sure the organization improves. Now a new infection control doctor and new deputy municipal chief doctors will be hired. According to the plan, a change will ensure a better organization starting in the New Year.
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On December 4, twelve former municipal medical chiefs demonstrated against the agency’s director in a joint statement in Bergens Tidende. One said he felt overwhelmed and ignored.
– Claiming that several colleagues left because the work pressure became too great is wrong, Ola Jøsendal, former deputy municipal chief physician, told BT.
All the chief physicians in the municipal chief physician’s office have resigned in the last two years.
