The information came to light at today’s hearing on the health centers in Oslo in the city council’s health and social affairs committee. Director of the nursing home agency, Helge Jagmann, said that employees experienced being “ravaged” by relatives. – They say things like that if I don’t get this and that for my mother, then I go to Dagsrevyen. – Go back to Africa – There are actually also people who say that you speak Norwegian so poorly that you can go back to Africa where you come from. – Many employees find it quite offensive to experience. We have reported relatives at Ullern health center for racism, said Jagmann. Deputy chairman of the committee, Morten Edvardsen (Sp), said he was glad such things were reported. He nevertheless asked whether relatives could have been involved to avoid frustration arising. Here, Jagmann acknowledged that the dialogue with relatives has not been thorough enough at the health centres. – People have thought a bit like in a hospital: People are inside for a short period, the most important thing here is the patient. We now very well see the importance of meeting, taking care of and having good cooperation with relatives, he said. Hearing number two Today’s hearing is the second in the series. It came about because the opposition was dissatisfied with the first one. They believed that they had not been given access to all the documents they had requested. At the hearing on 30 January, relatives and former patient Lasse Qvigstad shared heartbreaking stories from Ullern health centre. At the time, news and Avisa Oslo had reported in a number of cases about objectionable conditions, gross neglect and inadequate staffing at the health center. Before the hearing, several parties announced that they were considering a vote of no confidence in health councilor Robert Steen. PREVIOUS HEARING: Relative Pia Borander told a powerful story about her father to, among others, then health councilor Robert Steen. Photo: Ellen Omland Replaced Robert Steen A week after elected city council leader Raymond Johansen replaced Robert Steen as health councilor with Marthe Scharning Lund. For today’s hearing, the leader of the city council has also been called on the carpet together with Scharning Lund. In the health and social services committee last week, she announced four specific changes to the health centres. One is increased specialization of the health centres. This has been advocated by both politicians and professionals. The background is that the patients who are discharged from the hospitals are getting sicker and sicker. The second is to look at whether the districts order the right treatment offer for the patients. – In other words, the assessment of which patients are going where, said the board of health in the committee. She will also look at staffing outside normal working hours and whether so-called welfare technology can free up more resources for treatment. The health centers have also been strengthened with more than NOK 20 million. Oslo municipality has launched both an external and internal investigation.
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