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SVT’s “Allowance Review” has tracked the care of the elderly during the pandemic spring in Stockholm. Through meetings with the Kommunal union, it appears that several homes for the elderly lacked protective equipment.
The staff worked without mouthwash or soap. The companies had a high level of sick leave and had to bring in additional staff. In other places, employees were forced to work 14-hour shifts.
Both residents and staff fell ill with COVID-19. One of them is the auxiliary nurse Viveca Gigg, who works in the Berga nursing home on the outskirts of Stockholm.
He was close to death when he became infected in April.
– It was terribly unpleasant to feel like you were drowning. I was really terrified in the hospital. They had to calm me down. Even when I was asleep, they had to give me sedatives, he says on the show.
Almost half died
Expressen has previously mapped how covid-19 spread in Berga, where nearly half of the residents died. The infection spread in mid-March. By the summer, 43 of the 96 beds were empty.
In “Assignment Review”, Viveca Gigg says the infection moved between the floors of the accommodation:
– Staff were concerned that there wasn’t enough alcohol on their hands, but what mattered was soap and water. It was the anxiety and the staff that got sick and gone, he says.
At the same time, Kommunal received reports that Berga staff wore the same visor all day and that hygiene routines were poorly managed.
CEO: I had protective gear
Sakarias Mårdh is CEO of Responsibility and Care, which owns Berga and several other nursing homes in Stockholm. He says that Berga “always had protective equipment according to the recommendations of the Swedish Public Health Agency.”
– We continue to analyze how the infection has developed in the different departments. Negligence is a very strong word and if it had occurred, in accordance with our routines, it would have resulted in deviation reports. We have not received any reports of staff diversion, says Sakarias Mårdh on the show.
The first part of Assignment’s review series “The Mouthguard Game” will air on SVT at 8:00 PM on Wednesday.
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