After Kalla fakta’s review of new spiritual actors in the program Luked to Suicide, a majority of the Riksdag parties now want the law tightened.
The Center Party is one of those who want to stop people outside healthcare from treating serious illnesses.
– What upsets me is that there are people who make money from the seriously ill, says Anders W Jonsson, Member of Parliament for the Center Party.
Cold Facts has revealed how neo-spiritual actors advise against psychiatric care and spread messages that suicide can be a life plan. Today, according to the Patient Safety Act, it is forbidden for actors outside the healthcare system to treat cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, notifiable infectious diseases and conditions in connection with pregnancy. But not mental illness or other illnesses.
– I get extremely upset. This is not a new problem, this has been known for decades. What upsets me is that there are people who make money off the seriously ill. But also that the government has a finished bill that is in the drawer at the Ministry of Social Affairs and you don’t put two stones in a cross to help this group, says Anders W Jonsson, Member of Parliament for the Center Party.
In a survey, a majority of the Riksdag parties – the Liberals, the Green Party, the Sweden Democrats, the Left Parity and the Center Party – now say that the law should be tightened. The Social Democrats think that the ban should be tightened, but are unsure how. An investigation with legislative proposals was presented in 2019, but then-minister Lena Hallengren says in a written response that the pandemic got in the way.
Health Minister Acko Ankarberg Johansson replies that the government sees no urgent need to change the law. In an email response to Kalla fakta’s reporter, she writes, among other things, that “the government follows the results of inspections and that it cannot be ruled out that the law may need to be changed, but that it may require further investigative work.”
Lova took her own life
One of those who, according to her family, was persuaded by a medium not to seek care for her severe mental illness is 29-year-old Lova. Last summer she took her own life.
One of the parties that reacted strongly after Kalla fakta’s review is the Green Party.
– That the legislation is very inadequate is obvious based on this extremely tragic case. We want to see a change in the law where it should not be allowed to treat people who suffer from severe mental illness without having adequate training for it, says Ulrika Westerlund, Member of Parliament for the Green Party.
The entire Kalla fakta report “Historien om Lova” is now available to watch on TV4 Play.
The story of Lova
Lova was only 29 years old. She was persuaded to turn to crystals and mediums instead of psychiatry. Now the Lova family tells the story.