Sweden has to live pandemic COVID-19 when many medical personnel chose to resign. The reason is, since dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak in the first wave, the number of health workers resigning in Sweden has continued to increase.
This was told by Sineva Ribeiro, Chair of the Swedish Health Professionals Association. He admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic situation along with the lack of health workers was getting worse.
Likewise, the availability of beds in some Swedish ICUs. Several hospitals are overwhelmed due to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients while the health workers who handle patients are now limited.
Quoted from Bloomberg, these developments suggest that even countries with universal health care systems are struggling to keep up with the COVID-19 crisis. This week, Stockholm, Sweden’s intensive care capacity reached 99 percent, prompting calls for outside help.
However, of course capacity ICU not the only big problem when the health workers are exhausted and now decide to resign.
“The bigger concern now is whether Sweden has enough healthcare workers with the skills needed to treat the sickest patients,” Ribeiro explained.
“Right now the number of eligible people is less than there was in the spring which makes it more difficult to increase ICU capacity,” said Ribeiro.
It was also stated that more and more health workers were desperate and chose to leave at the same time as the case COVID-19 back up. A survey by broadcaster TV4 in Sweden showed that in 13 of Sweden’s 21 regions, resignations of health workers increased from last year, by 500 per month.
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