On Friday, the state administrator in the north received a report from all the hospitals in northern Norway on the status of how the pilot strike in SAS affects the health care system.
– Patches together
– We hear that they have managed to put together shift lists, thanks to health workers who are at work taking extra shifts. They go the extra mile to make this possible, she tells NRK.
– We also see, and know, that the situation will become more serious over the weekend if the strike continues.
The next report from Aspaker’s office to the Norwegian Board of Health will be sent on Monday.
– And then it is ultimately the audit that must make a decision on whether the situation in the health care system in the north is justifiable or not.
The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision assessed today, Friday, that there is no danger to life and health in the health service as a result of the ongoing labor dispute in SAS today and this weekend.
Earlier this week it was an emergency meeting between the state administrator in Troms and Finnmark, the state administrator in Nordland, Helse Nord, the county doctor and the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision about the consequences of the ongoing pilot strike for health services in the north.
University Hospital of Northern Norway in Tromsø.
Photo: UNN
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Vacationing health professionals
Aspaker said on Friday that they have no specific information that operations have been postponed in Troms and Finnmark as a result of the strike.
But they do not have an overview of whether health professionals on holiday will be able to get home – and at work.
– If the strike continues over the weekend, we will ask national authorities to apply for a dispensation to be able to set up flights from Oslo to Tromsø and from Oslo to Kirkenes to get holidaying health personnel back to work.
– We do this because the wear and tear on the health personnel who are at work is increasing with each passing day. Then it is important to get health personnel back from vacation who can relieve those who now work around the clock, she concludes.
– Special
Leader of the Norwegian Nursing Association Lill Sverresdatter Larsen thinks it is special that the state administrator will ask for a dispensation.
She points out that there has never been talk of the state administrator wanting to intervene in any of the Nurses’ Association’s strikes, which often go to the compulsory wage board.
– In that case, it will create a precedent that we will follow up, she writes in an SMS.
Larsen further writes that this shows the seriousness of the shortage of nurses.
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