A total of 23 patients are treated in Psychiatry Department 1, a department that usually treats psychosis, schizophrenia and schizoaffective conditions. Since January this year, eight of these places belong to patients sentenced to forensic psychiatric care.
According to Tarja-Leena Kirvesniemi, assistant director of psychiatry at the University Hospital, the forensic psychiatric patients are carefully selected.
– There is a crime at the bottom, but it has already been worked on in regional care or forensic psychiatry. Those who are at number one now are in the final phase, says Tarja-Leena Kirvesniemi.
“Not educated”
But the decision was not welcomed, according to several who work in the department.
One person believes that the staff are neither trained for, nor have chosen to work with, treating people who have committed serious crimes. An attendant describes how the situation is frustrating, and that it does not feel like the staff can do the best for the patient and that it thus affects both groups.
According to Roland Säll, director of psychiatry at the University Hospital, the staff has received both training and supervision.
– We have organized both training and supervision efforts, and we will carry out further training during the autumn, says Roland Säll.
Protection representative Jonatan Stanczak at Vårdförbundet disagrees.
– Of course, there are plans for us to receive training, but even though the patients are already on site, it is far from complete, says Jonatan Stanczak.