{"id":25524,"date":"2022-12-12T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/food-in-speed-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:06:44","slug":"food-in-speed-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/food-in-speed-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Food in speed – Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or in the middle of last year. Or on the side of the road. Or in a helicopter. And what the Bunadsgeriljaen sings about is actually no nonsense: the connection between proximity to the place of birth and the risk of transport births and various complications is completely real. Now Helgeland Hospital announces that they will close their maternity wards for four months in 2023, twice as long as last year. The news is as badly received as the children who are born in the back of cramped ambulances. By closing a third of the year and calling it “summer closure”, one has at best optimistic ideas about the northern Norwegian summer. The paradox is that this affects those who already have a long journey. The median travel time to the birth for those attending the hospital in Sandnessj\u00f8en is one hour – and that is the normal situation with open maternity wards. That a longer journey to the nearest place of birth increases the risk of giving birth on the road is simple mathematics. Women in labor (to the extent that they are asked what they think) experience transport births as frightening and dramatic. Such births are also undesirable from a medical point of view. You can say a lot of nice things about ambulance workers, and I like to do that, but they don’t have an operating theatre, a blood bank and a neonatal intensive care unit back there. Nor a dignified environment for the very first meeting between a mother and her newborn child. In the meantime, Norwegian mares and cows benefit from the legislation we have for the transport of live animals. It says that it is forbidden to transport pregnant animals just before the due date. We hear stories of women who run a blue light past their nearest maternity ward because it is closed for the summer, and spend painful hours in transport or give birth on the road. It is therefore illegal to treat animals in the same way. Pregnant women in Helgeland stand on the barricades to get the same rights as pregnant cows. When animal transport has a higher standard than maternity care, we are on a wild road. There are no similar legal protections for human women, unless one interprets the general safe health care laws as a hint that hours of transportation in labor is not a good idea. As arguments for summer closures, the hospital management uses financial austerity, staff shortages, holiday closures, practical considerations, geographical distances, and birth rates – apparently interchangeably and at their own discretion. I would like to hear an explanation of why exactly this part of the health services is so well suited to budget cuts. It is, after all, about emergency medicine. And in obstetrics you always have two patients; mother and child. It is “two lives in one”. Nevertheless, maternity care is at the top of the list when healthcare companies have to cut costs. Is there not a single group of patients who would tolerate a longer journey to the hospital better than those giving birth? With respect to report: The food supply for women on the coast of places like Helgeland and M\u00f8re and Romsdal is probably hardly possible to imagine for the rest of the country. As an additional burden, these women have to hear hospital directors and other experts state that things are going “well”. For some politicians and health bureaucrats, lying in an ambulance bed along a bumpy road for a few hours with a vise in a certain place would be a relevant experience. Then they would perhaps come up with some clever budget tricks to keep the maternity wards open anyway. I myself am the mother of a summer child, admittedly born in a town where the maternity ward operates on a year-round basis. At the time, an obstetrician said that it was stupid of me to have an appointment in the middle of their busiest period when they were going on holiday at the same time. However, if you are to have a chance of getting a nursery place for your one-year-old when the time comes, you must give birth in the period August to November. If you take away the opportunity to come down between May and September, there remains a small window in October and November where new world citizens are welcome. In the rural areas, one then has to settle for trousering slippery roads to get to the maternity ward, which barely stays open. If it’s urgent and there’s bad weather, you can’t count on the helicopter coming. Perhaps it is best not to bear children.
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