– Sensational and shocking stories of new and old dates have come on a conveyor belt, said Elin Marie Andreassen (Frp) during the board meeting in Trondheim municipality on Tuesday. There, the politicians were briefed on the case in which 67-year-old Alf Ingar Selven died suddenly and unexpectedly at the Klæbu health and welfare centre. Parts of the case went behind closed doors. Andreassen pointed out that employees in elderly care in the municipality have been under severe pressure for a long time. The shop stewards have been clear that more staffing is needed, and that this has been repeated year after year, according to Andreassen. – And year after year the stories have come, continued the Frp politician. – Too little money and people. She pointed out that staff in elderly care do their best, but that they need more colleagues. – The mayor said in an interview with news that it is in “a big system and that mistakes can always happen”. She also pointed to challenges with a shortage of nurses, Andreassen said and continued: – But how many mistakes and how many unfortunate individual cases can the mayor and the Labor Party accept before they can start talking about the fact that we have a system where there is too little money and people? Elin Marie Andreassen (Frp) believes that employees in elderly care in Trondheim have been under severe pressure for a long time. Photo: Kirsti Kringstad / news Mayor Rita Ottervik and the Labor Party have governed Trondheim for 19 years. One of the top issues has just been strengthening care for the elderly. – If these stories had come from private actors, the mayor would have been merciless in his criticism. But we see little of that when the mayor himself is in charge, said Andreassen. Admitting mistakes Recently, news told the story of Alf Ingar Selven. He died after three weeks at the Klæbu health and welfare centre. During the period, he had 27 different carers, news’s review of the patient record shows. There was a high level of sickness absence and many substitutes. Relatives believe that their brother was thirsty and starving to death, and that he received a lack of care as a result of poor staffing. The state administrator in Trøndelag opened a supervisory case on the basis of a complaint from relatives. It was the siblings Kurt Selven and Laila Engvik who complained about the case to the Statsforvalteren in Trøndelag. Photo: Morten Waagø Health and welfare director Wenche Dehli disagrees that Alf Ingar Selven was thirsty and starved to death, but has acknowledged several mistakes in the case. Among other things, the man was never weighed. Despite having sleep apnea, the breathing machine was rarely used. Relatives were not notified of the man’s deteriorating health condition until the same night he died. – There are some routines we have not followed well enough, said Dehli in the chairmanship on Tuesday. Alf Ingar the day he moved into the nursing home. Photo: Private A few days after this photo was taken, Alf Ingar died. Relatives believe there is no doubt about the change from the day he moved in. Photo: Privat Further follow up on individual cases Ingrid Skjøtskift (H) pointed out that she could not see in the budget that the Labor Party will actually follow up on its own plan to strengthen care for the elderly. – Were you reassured by what was reviewed today? – No, not really. I believe that we have a situation where people who work in health and care perceive that it is a stressful everyday life and that they have a lot to do, and not always enough. It is not a good situation, says Skjøtskift. Mayor Ottervik says they will follow up on the cases and elaborate on what to do next. – We will, from the Labor Party’s side, ensure a continued increase in staffing at the health and welfare centre. We will follow up on these individual cases, how they are handled further. Also ensuring that we put in place departments with extra expertise and extra staffing, which can meet the special needs of certain people and groups, she says. The staffing crisis within elderly care would probably not have been avoided, even if the offer had been private, the mayor emphasized. – To answer Andreassen: So there won’t be more nurses because the offer is private. It is one of our big headaches. We must make sure to keep the employees. I completely agree that we need more money. But we also have to rethink how we use the resources, said Ottervik during the chairman’s meeting. Mayor Rita Ottervik next to municipal director Morten Wolden in today’s board meeting. Photo: Bent Lindsetmo / news Ottervik is happy that the matter was raised in the chairmanship on Tuesday. – We have received answers to more than what had been thought of before, because these are complicated matters with many factors, and which I am very happy are being properly reviewed. These are not very pleasant things, and it has to be learned from and a few things have to be corrected.
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The politicians in Trondheim react – news Trøndelag
