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A dream of Christmas comfort and a permit for the medical staff in distress and a rampant corona infection How does it work? Hospitals are now trying to plan for an uncertain location and staff need for a vacation.
Will it be a Christmas present for the care staff this year? Stock Photography.
Across the country, regions and hospitals are trying to make plans for the Christmas and New Year holidays, as infection rises. The staff are tired, many did not get the four weeks that everyone is entitled to this summer.
– We are among those who could not offer it this summer, says Zilla Jonsson, HR Director in the Östergötland Region.
She says the region scaled back operations a bit over the fall break to give staff vacations. The plan was to do the same during Christmas weeks, especially for those who missed their four weeks. But she doesn’t know what it will be like now. The infection increases and this can affect the need for care during the weekends.
– It is a very uncertain situation. We don’t know what the situation will be like this Christmas, he says.
It sounds more or less the same in other places. Difficult to plan, because no one knows where the increase in infection will go, and there is still more than a month and a half before Christmas.
At the Karolinska Hospital in Solna, each company can decide for itself what to do with the holidays and leave, as well as at Södersjukhuset in Stockholm. But Markus Hagström from the Karolinska press service says it is difficult.
– It is really difficult. Even looking forward a week, he says.
Skåne University Hospital in Malmö holds crisis management meetings twice a week, says Press Officer Magnus Aspegren in the Skåne Region. He explains that all directors of Skåne University Hospital have been urged to be restrictive in granting holidays on weekends. Additionally, lower priority attention is also slowed down.
At Uppsala University Hospital, the infection situation determines whether there will be a holiday this Christmas. A 25 percent reduction is planned over the weekends, but the infection situation will be decisive, says human resources director Anna Wadenhov. However, so far no license has been withdrawn at the University Hospital.
Although it is not clear if other regions and hospitals will also pay more.
– No such statement has been made yet, says Erika Lövstedt in the Södersjukhuset press service.
The Academic Hospital has also not decided on any additional compensation if staff should be called in, says press officer Elisabeth Tysk.
– We haven’t gotten that far yet. Our priority is to be able to give citizens the care they need, and to give them a vacation that was not enough this summer, says Zilla Jonsson in the Östergötland Region.
