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High infection rates and great pressure on the health and welfare services in Trondheim have led to the municipality now having a full review of the situation with the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
388 new infections have been registered on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
20 patients are admitted to St. Olav’s hospital, where four are in the intensive care unit and four are in a respirator.
In addition to the meeting with the National Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian Directorate of Health on Monday at 10 am, the municipality will have a meeting with the State Administrator on Tuesday.
The theme of the meeting is concern about the total burden on the health care system.
The meeting comes about after high infection rates in the last week, and an increasing pressure on the health and welfare services in the city.
– Press on all sides
St. Olav’s hospital announced last Monday that they must postpone planned operations. Sick leave is sky high, and hospital director Grethe Aasved tells NRK that she is worried about her employees.
She has now asked the municipality to tighten the measures, because Aasved is aware that the entire municipality is experiencing great pressure.
– There is pressure on all sides, says Aasved.
The hospital director’s biggest concern is the forecast that the National Institute of Public Health recently presented before the weekend.
– It shows that if we follow the curve we are now on, there will not be 20, but 60 hospitalized coronary patients in one to two weeks, says Aasved.
Four deaths in one week
Infection rates in Trondheim have been very high in the last week, with over 200 infected several days.
On Sunday, a new patient with covid-19 died at St. Olav’s hospital. This is the fourth death in one week.
Last Monday, St. Olav’s also set a record in the number of hospitalized covid 19 patients, with 21 hospitalized. This figure remained stable last week.
An extraordinary chairmanship meeting will be held on Wednesday, where it will be considered to introduce a new infection control regulation in the municipality.
Over a thousand new infected in the country
In the last 24 hours, 1,470 corona infections have been registered in Norway.
That is 314 more than the same day last week. In the last seven days, an average of 2,055 corona infections have been registered per day.
The corresponding average seven days ago was 1,667, reports NTB.
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