The Echo has called around to several regions, where at the moment there are no big consequences for healthcare in connection with the Vårdförbundet’s blockade.
But in Stockholm, the region’s chief physician Johan Bratt says that orthopedic operations have been affected.
– In Region Stockholm, approximately 20 operations have been canceled due to the blockade. It is about planned operations such as hip joint operations, writes Johan Bratt in an email to SVT Stockholm.
Protective work is something the region can do in certain situations, despite the blockade, in cases where, for example, there is a danger to life.
According to the region, emergency care and other care that cannot wait has been affected. So far, it has also not been relevant to bring in more rental staff.
Blocked against overtime and overtime
It was during Thursday that over 60,000 members of the Vårdförbundet went on strike against, among other things, overtime and overtime.
– We need reasonable conditions to be able to cope with a full professional life, said Sineva Ribeiro, the chairman of the Healthcare Association, to SVT on Thursday.
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