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On Tuesday, 99 percent of intensive care units in Stockholm were filled.
– The Stockholm region has been significantly more affected than other metropolitan regions. Here there is the greatest need for health services, both at a rapid pace and to a greater extent. We must mobilize all actors in society to offer resistance to the virus, says Björn Eriksson, director of health and medical treatment in the region, during a press conference.
He says that the population of Stockholm has had too much contact with each other, but that the hospitals have had capacity because the health personnel have done a good job.
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– But this doesn’t last long. Now I have asked the National Board of Health and Welfare for more support for the nurses in our hospitals. We need your help.
The 160 intensive care units in the region are mainly occupied by covid-19 patients, but others are also occupying the places.
On Wednesday, 96 new corona deaths were recorded in Sweden.
– This is a business that is about life and death, so the situation is very serious, says Björn Persson, commercial director of the intensive care unit at Karolinska University Hospital, to Dagens Nyheter.
– Now that should be enough
LIFE AND DEATH: Björn Persson, commercial director of the intensive care unit at Karolinska University Hospital, says the situation is dire. Photo: NTB / Jonas Ekstromer / AFP
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Björn Eriksson, director of health in the region, also settles with those who do not limit social interaction.
– That should be enough. It can’t be worth having “after work”, getting together to buy Christmas gifts, to be seen at the “Advent cafe”. The consequences are dire, he says.
– We must realize that having a beer after work can have fatal consequences, says Eriksson.
Ask parents to talk to their children.
– Above all, young people transmit the virus to other people and, as parents, you are a role model. Help also not only by refusing to socialize outside the home, but also by informing the person inviting that it is a bad idea to have an event, he says.
Exit from the pandemic
Confirm the vaccine findings
Magnus Thyberg, head of the department of health and drug administration in the region, believes that the corona vaccine is the way out of the pandemic.
– Everyone should look at the vaccination offer, know it and have confidence in it. We believe this is the way out of the pandemic, says Thyberg during the press conference.
He says that vaccines will be given priority, above all, to those who have the greatest need, such as the elderly, people in the risk group and employees in health and care.
