An interesting insight into the incompetence of the Swedish public healthcare system.
>When Agnieszka feared she was infected with corona, an ambulance sent to her home. Then, as she describes it, "hell" began with Swedish health care. "Huge chaos where not even healthcare professionals know what to do".
Agnieszka has multiple sclerosis and asthma. It is 112 (emergency service) who makes the assessment and sends an ambulance to her.
- When the staff is outside the door and they have no idea what to do when they see me on the floor with great breathing difficulties. They call someone and talk on the phone for 15 minutes. Then I was told that I should go out to them.
They are wearing protective clothing and when she sits in the ambulance, the paramedics laments that they have no routines for these situations.
- He says they do not have access to the "tops" so they can not test me. New rules established during the day are that they are not allowed to swab people outside the hospital.
At half past nine in the evening she arrives at Danderyd's hospital. Two men receive her in a room that you enter directly from the parking lot.
- I get absolutely no information. They know that I have a disability and need a wheelchair. They think my condition is serious and promise me they will test me soon. I lie there for two hours without any contact with the world or medical staff. Press the alarm button when I really get the feeling that I'm suffocating. The button does not work.
When her alarm button does not work, she starts crawling on all four to reach the other button, which is on the wall. Because of her MS, she has difficulty walking. Cont-
- To reach the second button that sits on the wall I have to crawl gently on all four, like a damn dog, to get there. The tears begin to flow. After 20 minutes, a total of 2 hours and 20 minutes without anyone even checking to see if I am still alive, a nurse shows up. She promises me to come back soon with medicines that will help me breathe and Alvedon against fever. She never came back.
Agnieszka says that she lacked water and could not reach the tap because of her MS. Agnieszka then called her husband who came there and they sat for another two hours in the room. They walk out into the corridor and ask the staff what is going on and why they even brought her there if they cannot provide care.
- The staff replies that they do not know what they are doing. Their routines are changed a couple of times per day. Nobody knows what to do but they were told that they can only test those who have been 100% contact with a person with confirmed coronavirus.
Now the couple had had enough and decided to leave the hospital. On the way to the parking, however, they meet a doctor who says she wants to examine Agnieszka. It had then been close to 5 hours. But the doctor's help would not be long-lasting.
- While she is starting to ask questions, her cell phone rings and she disappears before she even has the chance to investigate me or swab me. She promised to come back to us within a maximum of 2 hours. I went home.
- I can no longer cope with the fucking circus. It was the staff of 112 who decided that I had to be taken to the hospital. But the hospital had no time and no plan for me and other patients, she says. So far, the visit itself and the idiocy in the health care center have taken on more of my powers than the illness itself, she adds.
Two hours after returning home, the hospital discovered that she was no longer in place.
Oh, le 56% burger mutts are cute when they think they know much about Europe.
Colton Lopez
At least this will finally crush the myth of Swedish exceptionalism and force people to stop living off of old merits. Most Swedes (including the entirety of our political machine and mass media) seem to be stuck in the 1970's and still think we're seen as an enlightened bastion of civilization and efficiency. Any time someone points out this isn't the case they get triggered as fuck and start raving about Russian bots and the holy and inviolable "Swedish image". Bring it on Corona, crush this house of cards once and for all that we may build something better from its ashes.
Mason Wright
Why does no one ever have singular sclerosis?
Carson Nelson
>pressing a button
just pull off the heart monitor lol, everyone knows nurses aren't paid half enough to care for you
