In the spring of 2021, Gran municipality laid off a female employee. She is said to have broken the rules for using a face mask at work. The employment relationship ended on 27 April. The community where the auxiliary nurse worked was affected by infection. On April 20, a resident in his late 50s died with corona in his body. Gets warning Now the Norwegian Board of Health has concluded in the case. They have given the assistant nurse a warning, but the person in question is allowed to keep the authorization as a health worker. The auxiliary nurse writes, via her lawyer, that it has been very hard on her and her family, private life and professional life. – To feel both put in a gallows, persecuted, looked down upon and simply excluded from society is no excuse, the woman writes. Even if the woman is allowed to keep the authorization, the Norwegian Board of Health writes in its decision that they take the case of the former employee seriously. LARGE PARTY: There were many cases of the spread of infection in Gran in the spring of 2021. Central to this was the much talked about barn party. After the party, which took place at Easter, two people died of coronavirus. One of them was the organizer of the party, Hans Kristian Gaarder. At the same time as the infection tracing after the barn event took place, the outbreak of infection occurred at the housing association where the auxiliary nurse worked. According to the municipality, she said she was not at the barn event. Photo: Eirik Pessl-Kleiven / news Exposed users to infection The Norwegian Board of Health describes in detail the situations in which the auxiliary nurse is said to have broken the rules. Among other things, the woman is said to have dropped a face mask in food and grooming situations with the users. In the decision, which news has been given access to, they write that «by not following current routines about bandages when you were at work and in contact with users [ …], you acted in a way that violated the requirement for professionally sound professional practice ». They also write that “By failing to follow infection control routines, you exposed users to infection and serious illness.” According to the Norwegian Board of Health’s decision, the auxiliary nurse had also shared a post on an internal Facebook group for employees at Solgløtt, where she expressed skepticism about wearing a bandage. It was the State Administrator in the Interior who sent the case of the employee to the Norwegian Board of Health. The state administrator, for his part, opened an audit following an anonymous report of concern. The decision on the warning was appealed by the woman and her lawyer Barbro Paulsen. – It is important to emphasize that the case has not been decided yet, Paulsen writes. MAYOR: Randi Eek Thorsen calls the decision regarding the dismissal last year «drastic». Photo: Lars Erik Skrefsrud / news Mayor of Gran, Randi Eek Thorsen (Labor Party) said at the time that it was a drastic decision to dismiss a health worker for breach of infection control routines. The Norwegian Board of Health also opened an inspection against Gran municipality, but did not find any failure in the municipality’s handling. The assistant nurse: Got physical ailments from a bandage In an e-mail to news, the woman’s lawyer writes that her client struggled to use a bandage, and that she was fainting at work several times. In its decision, the Norwegian Board of Health emphasized that several colleagues had observed the auxiliary nurse without a bandage several times and over time, where the rules dictated the use of a mask. The woman, for her part, believes she was not met because she struggled with a bandage, and that she had major health problems due to the use. – I received a letter from a doctor stating that it was not advisable for me to wear a face mask, but that I could use a visor at work. This recommendation from a doctor informed the management that it was not relevant to follow. news has requested documentation of the health problems she describes. This has not yet been submitted to news. LAWYER: Barbro Paulsen is the assistant nurse’s lawyer. She writes to news that according to the law it is not sufficient that there is a breach of duty. The breach of duty must also be deliberate. She therefore believes that the auxiliary nurse should not have received a warning. Photo: Knut Anders Finnset / news The woman further writes that she followed infection control routines with meter limits for users and other employees in accordance with the instructions that were at the workplace. She therefore believes that there should have been no basis for either dismissal or warning. news has been in contact with Gran municipality to get answers to the woman’s allegations. They do not want to comment. – We do not want to comment on the individual case, writes Janicke Brechan, municipal director for family and welfare. Thought covid was like “ordinary flu” news is aware that the woman has previously posted several posts on Facebook expressing skepticism about coronary vaccine and pandemic management. SHARED POSTS: The auxiliary nurse shared a number of posts about corona and vaccination on his private Facebook profile. Photo: Screenshot / Facebook She also sent several private consultation letters, to public bodies, in 2021. She doubted the usefulness of face masks, and believed that the pandemic was not worse than the common flu. «Covid-19 is not a dangerous lethal pandemic! The Sars cov2 virus is no more dangerous than the common flu. It is completely normal for viruses to constantly mutate, it is contagious but usually becomes less and less dangerous with each mutation, “the woman wrote in the consultation letters. She further wrote that “Mouthpieces are proven to be extremely ineffective, they do not stop viruses, and are proven harmful to the user’s own immune system.”
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The assistant nurse was fired by Gran municipality. The Norwegian Board of Health issues warning, retains authorization – news Innlandet – Local news, TV and radio
