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Now, elderly care staff in all Skåne municipalities can be tested for covid-19. For three weeks, hospital employees with symptoms have been able to be tested. But it is long before Skåne reaches its share of national goals.
Staff at the sampling store outside Sus in Lund show how the covid-19 test is taken. Outside of Skåne’s five emergency hospitals, hospital staff and now elderly staff can also be evaluated.
Sampling for covid-19 is a high priority for Swedish politicians. Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren (S) recently said the regions “must increase the pace”.
The national target set by the Swedish Public Health Agency for Sweden is 100,000 tests per week. Last week, the number was around 29,000 tests, a third.
According to Skåne’s population, it would take 13,000 tests per week to do their part. But the actual number is a tenth.
– We have good laboratory capacity in Skåne, but we do not want to start testing for the sake of sampling. There must be a goal for the test to make a difference, infection control doctor Eva Melander says of the criticism from the Minister of Social Affairs.
– The tests mean that you must have a clear system, especially since this is a disease that complies with the Infection Protection Law. If you detect covid-19 in a person, you have obligations and rights that a doctor must inform.
“We don’t want to start testing by mere sampling. There must be a goal, ”says infection protection doctor Eva Melander of the criticism by the Minister of Social Affairs about slow development.
World Health Organization WHO He urged countries to try more as weapons in the pandemic. Denmark launched an offensive strategy this week to locate and isolate anyone who has had contact with those who tested positive. The goal is to screen up to 140,000 Danes a week, even people with very mild symptoms.
– If you are going to do a mass test, then I believe more in antibody tests. It is much more important to get an idea of the situation. Mild symptoms: You should stay home, says Eva Melander.
Infection wounds in the current state, when many are likely to carry the virus, have also been ruled out by the Public Health Authority as an overly demanding source of resources.
In Skåne, the number of tested covid-19s has gradually increased. Last week it was roughly 1,500 people and Eva Melander hopes that primary care in the future can come together and offer even more evidence, for example in elderly care.
But it is still far from reaching 13,000 tests per week in Skåne.
“The important thing is not to take x number of samples, the important thing is to take samples for the right reason to avoid further spread of infection,” emphasizes Eva Melander.
Previously have the asset stick sampling has been a bottleneck in Skåne. The priority groups have been patients admitted to hospitals and residents in elderly care.
After the Skåne Region received a couple of substantial deliveries of test materials, hospital staff began evaluating symptoms in late April.
Starting this week, you can also assess municipal home care, home care, and senior staff based on referrals from medically responsible managers or nurses.
The Public Health Authority has recently added another priority group: patients in whom it is important to know if they have covid-19, for example, because they have a basic disease that requires advanced treatment or go to a hospital for surgery.
At a press conference this week, Regional Director Alf Jönsson showed samples of samples, from a great installment. The sticks were previously a deficiency that limited testing at Skåne.
The government is clearly dissatisfied that the tests are increasing so slowly.
Therefore, to support and act with a flashlight against municipalities and regions, a testing coordinator, Harriet Wallberg, who was previously rector of the Karolinska Institute, has been appointed.
She thinks that all staff and everyone living in old age should be tested, even if they have no symptoms.
“If it is true that there is someone in a retirement home who has the infection and has no symptoms, it is devastating to others that the person can infect,” Harriet Wallberg said in an interview with TT.
A third group that she believes should be evaluated are staff from other socially important professions, such as police officers, preschool staff, drivers who work in food transportation.
