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UNN has had at most 25 hospitalized coronary patients.
The theme of the press conference is that corona patients, other admissions and many patients ready for discharge create major problems for hospital operations. Among other things, planned operations can be postponed.
– Many in UNN are starting to get very tired, says Anita Schumacher, director at the University Hospital of Northern Norway.
– It is a very demanding total load. We are unable to shield planned treatment, says Schumacher.
9 of the 14 covid patients at UNN are unvaccinated, says chief physician at the Department of Infectious Diseases Dag Seeger Halvorsen.
He says that most men are hospitalized, and that it is mostly elderly patients. 80 percent are over 60 years old. Very many have the common underlying diseases.
Lack of resources
Laila Furulund Strøm, section leader of the intensive care unit at UNN, says corona patients are even more resource-intensive because they are isolated.
– We have challenges in meeting the need for intensive care nurses in a normal situation – and then it becomes extra challenging during a pandemic.
– It requires more resources.
Furulund Strøm says they have to move employees and that they have to work a lot of overtime, and that the biggest challenge is the lack of intensive care nurses.
– In addition, we must take into account that there may be hospitalized children with RS virus.
But the director at UNN says that they are not at the breaking point yet.
– A breaking point for me, it is a point where you can not handle the situation. We are not there, Schumacher states.
Large load
Tromsø is one of the places in Norway with the highest infection pressure. This has led to a great strain on UNN with many hospitalized coronary patients.
The days in the hospital are tough. They have received several intensive care nurses from other hospitals, and an unusual number of patients with covid-19 also means that UNN has to postpone operations.
On Tuesday, 187 corona-infected patients were admitted to hospitals in Norway. There is a decrease of ten patients from the day before.
19 of the patients receive respiratory treatment and 45 are in the intensive care unit.
At the chairmanship meeting in Tromsø municipality earlier today, Magne Nicolaisen, director of health and care in the municipality, informed about challenges.
– Right now it is an incredibly difficult situation in the health care system in Tromsø municipality, when it comes to running day by day, says Nicolaisen.
Large sickness absence among employees and infection in institutions in Tromsø create major problems. Especially when it comes to staffing.
New measures in Tromsø
The new corona regulations were discussed in an extraordinary chairmanship meeting today, Tuesday at 10. The municipality has informed about the new measures.
– We want the event to continue to take place. Therefore, we want the nightclubs to be kept open, and that the Christmas table should be held, says mayor Gunnar Wilhelmsen in the press conference.
But it will happen by table placement.
– All last week we said that conferences and Christmas dinners should go their own way, Wilhelmsen says.
Therefore, they do not introduce the meter, he states.