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Inger, 93, says he might as well die.
This is because the ruling majority in Huddinge wants to close the municipal home care service.
The reason? It is not profitable enough.
Today the decision will be made affecting 761 Huddinge residents and their families. The municipal home care service has not been profitable enough in recent years, it has even declined financially when serving the elderly and infirm in recent years. Therefore, it must be phased out. The public and the opposition received the message just ten days before a decision was made.
Christian Democrat Karl Henriksson is chairman of the welfare and attendance committee, which has called an extraordinary meeting to make the decision.
– We consider this to be necessary, because the home care service has had large deficits for many years, he says.
Photo: Jonna Thomasson / Huddinge Township
Karl Henriksson (KD), city councilor and chair of the Huddinge welfare and attendance committee.
Criticized by Ivo
Of the more than 1,300 people who need home care in Huddinge, 552 have chosen a private job.
A private actor, who has almost 400 of these users, has open cases in the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate, Ivo, after, among other things, having paid for desserts that were neither ordered nor delivered. Another player, who due to deficiencies was forced to close the business in the municipality of Sollentuna, but can continue in Huddinge, has paid visits to users that have never been made. Three actors run the risk of having their permits to provide care revoked. How does the chair of the care committee see it?
– It’s probably best to ask that question of private contractors, says City Councilor Karl Henriksson.
Have you not calculated that private actors are more profitable, if you close the municipal home care service for reasons of profitability?
– Of course we have no information on how private contractors run their business. We verify that they really give the elderly the care they should receive, that is the essential for us, says Karl Henriksson.
Photo: JERKER IVARSSON
Inger Ryd, 93, and her daughter Lis Averstad Ryd, 62.
For Inger Ryd, 93, it has always been an active decision to choose the home care service managed by the municipality.
– If they close the home care service, he could very well die, he says.
Inger Ryd is very satisfied with the care she has received from the municipal home care service from and into the last ten years. Here they play Yatzy, do gymnastics and spend time with the carers and each other. Since he found out about the municipality’s plans, he has felt bad “throughout his body”:
– It is awful. Terrible. I do not know what to do.
She hopes that the politicians themselves will avoid the treatment they expose her to.
– I would like to ask you to think before making the decision.
Photo: JERKER IVARSSON
Inger Ryd, 93, and her daughter Lis Averstad Ryd, 62.
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