The Minister of Health was not notified of the closure of Andreas Hus – news Sørlandet – Local news, TV and radio

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On Monday evening, the board of the Association for Children’s Palliative Care (FFB) decided that Andreas Hus will be closed. The reason for the closure is a cut in state aid, and what the association claims has been “a political game” according to news’s ​​revelations. – It has been a sad political game, where a so-called designer sofa and completely open support for a handball team were misused as excuses, wrote general secretary Natasha Pedersen in the press release. In the same press release, Pedersen wrote that she had been in dialogue with the Ministry of Health about the closure. The Minister of Health refutes this. – There has been no dialogue about the winding down of Andreas Hus between the Ministry of Health and Care and the Association for Children’s Palliative Care. It is therefore surprising that they are now shutting down, says Kjerkol in an email to news. Could get money in January Andreas Hus, a center for seriously ill and dying children, was to open its doors to the first families in January. In total, the project has received NOK 90 million from the state. The new center has received earmarked funds for the past three years. In the proposed budget for next year, the ear marking has been removed. Instead, the government proposes to collect the funds in a pot that several actors can apply for. – It can appear deliberate. FFB has no opportunity to finance operations from the new year, until any support comes in August, Pedersen said in the press release on Monday. The Directorate of Health states in an email to news on Tuesday that they aim to process all applications for operating funds in December, and that a payment will then be possible in early January. – The scheme that Andreas Hus can apply for will be announced these days with a deadline of 7 December. We advertise schemes 6 weeks before the deadline. The Norwegian Directorate of Health naturally takes into account previous years’ allocations and results when we assess applications for operations, says department director Elise Husum in the Norwegian Directorate of Health.



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