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The ship’s doctor tells his version.
The doctor responsible for the passengers on the first trip with MS “Roald Amundsen” claims that it was Hurtigruten’s top management who made the decision not to notify passengers of the outbreaks on July 29.
According to NRK, it is clear from the county doctor’s report that the ship’s doctor, the municipal chief doctor in Hadsel and the clear advice from FHI to notify passengers must have been outdone by management.
The ship’s doctor must have been in contact with a manager at the central office in Tromsø.
– Said he had to conference with Asta Lassesen (the leader’s senior director and later commercial director of Hurtigruten). But the management did not follow the advice. The manager I spoke with said it was too early to come out with a warning, the doctor told NRK.
At the time, four crew members were under observation in the ship’s hospital with a fever and cough.
No one on the ship or in Tromsø Municipality was notified or quarantined. No emergency port was set up for the ships when the ship docked in Tromsø.
On July 31, four crown-infected employees on Hurtigruten’s ship MS Roald Amundsen were admitted to Tromsø hospital. It was the beginning of a major eruption on the ship where a total of 42 employees and 29 out of 400 passengers were infected in two trips.
The case is still being investigated by the police and the government is tightening cruise traffic.
Neither the Hurtigruten head office manager nor Asta Lassesen want to comment on the ship’s doctor’s claims.
– Hurtigruten has not received the report from the county governor and therefore we can hardly comment on the details of its content. However, we are surprised that the comments NRK transmits obviously differ from those previously made to the independent investigative committee. This is a description of the incidents in which we do not recognize ourselves, Hurtigruten communications manager and press officer Øystein Knoph tells NRK.
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