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Helsingborg Epicenter for Corona
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The Helsingborg hospital emergency room is currently so busy that it is not possible to isolate suspected cases of covid-19. Instead, multiple people with unclear respiratory symptoms are cared for in the same room.
– We have a shortage of space and a shortage of personnel, says Sören Nordh, chief security representative in Vårdförbundet and security representative in the emergency department in Helsingborg.
The municipality of Helsingborg is currently an epicenter of the covid infection. In the last survey of the public health authority, during week 48, Helsingborg had 687 cases of covid-19 / 100,000 inhabitants. Which is three times more than the average in Sweden.
Sören Nordh, chief safety representative of the Healthcare Association and safety representative in the emergency department in Helsingborg, warns of a difficult situation in which suspected cases of covid-19 are arriving. Sometimes so many that it is not possible to isolate them.
When individual rooms are exhausted, multiple patients with respiratory symptoms are placed in the same room, although it is not known if they all have COVID-19.
– Of course, it doesn’t feel good to have to compromise security. It becomes a frustration and concern among staff when we cannot use the guidelines that exist, says Sören Nordh, a nurse practitioner and safety representative.
This has led to people who are not infected with COVID-19 having to wait for care in the same room as those infected with COVID. Only when rapid tests for covid-19 yielded answers did the staff move established covid-19 patients.
– We don’t have enough individual rooms to cope with the onslaught that it is now, says Sören Nordh.
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Sören Nordh, Safety Representative for the Helsingborg Emergency Department.
He says that staff feel pressured and sometimes it turns into lively discussions when it comes to lack of space.
– It can be a nuisance to vent to your colleagues, says Sören Nordh.
There have also been situations where staff caring for patients with covidity have felt they can no longer cope.
– They have said no and then they have the opportunity to be in another part of the emergency room.
The Helsingborg hospital emergency room has suffered from a lack of space for a long time. It is sized to receive 140 patients a day, but, according to Sören Nord, it is usually around 200 to 250. To cope with the first wave of covid-19, a modular house with 10 individual rooms was built this spring.
– People who apply with mild covid symptoms can go there. It is a long way to go outside the module. If the weather is bad or if you are very sick, you go through the usual emergency room, explains Sören Nordh.
A woman Aftonbladet has been in contact with claims that a family member who had Covid-19 had been allowed to enter through the regular emergency room. To which she reacted.
– Therefore, the Covid disease must go to a room where other seriously ill people are sitting and waiting and where the usual staff is sitting at the reception. It sounds crazy, says Sara, who doesn’t want to give her last name.
This is firmly rejected by the director of the hospital, Harald Roos. Explain that all the patients are at the front door. There a screening triage is performed.
– On the basis of a series of questions, the patient is classified on the basis of suspected infection, suspected infection, and severe or non-suspected infection. It’s a very strict classification, says Harald Roos, manager of the Helsingborg hospital.
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Helsingborg Hospital.
It is not clear why the municipality of Helsingborg has been so affected by covid-19. When Aftonbladet hits the city center, several people say that it is often crowded aboard commuter trains and that many people shop at the Väla shopping center. Especially during Black Friday.
– There were a lot of people in Väla on Black Friday. They showed no respect for the people around them, says Cathline Lundblad.
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Cathline Lundblad.
She herself rushed in for a brief period. She sensed it as if people didn’t mind keeping their distance. Despite the fact that the stores had established clear instructions.
– Nobody cared about that. In the queue they stood and inflated at the neck,
The director of the hospital, Harald Roos, also perceives it as if the people of Helsingborg like to go shopping, despite the covid-19.
– We have noticed an increase in cases related to pay weekends or Black Friday, says Harald Roos and continues:
– I passed Väla on Black Friday. Then there were a lot of cars in the parking lot, he says.
The five to seven day incubation interval is quite correct, says Sören Nordh. Unfortunately, you’ve been waiting for the ER to get more covid patients after Black Friday. So it was.
– We see a connection to that. Helsingborgers must improve in following the recommendations of the Swedish Public Health Agency.
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