The Tidö Agreement, the agreement between the governing parties and SD, included several proposals on political reforms for migration and integration.
One of the proposals is that employees within municipalities and authorities must be obliged to inform the Swedish Migration Agency and the Police Authority when they come into contact with people who are staying in Sweden without a permit. At the same time, the agreement opens up exceptions for, for example, healthcare, an issue that must be investigated in more detail.
However, the proposal has already attracted criticism from healthcare professionals. In a debate article in December, 4,008 healthcare workers and healthcare students protested against parts of the Tidö agreement that they believed were racist and anti-democratic.
“Morally reprehensible”
The purpose of the campaign “We do not indicate” is to clearly distance ourselves from any future changes in the law that may mean that healthcare workers have to indicate undocumented patients to other authorities.
“We will not agree to this. We believe that it is ethically and morally reprehensible,” it says on the campaign’s website.
Ready to break the law
In a written response to SVT Nyheter, the initiators, who do not want to give their names, say that they are already struggling with stress and ethical dilemmas at work.
– We don’t need more unreasonable demands on us from politicians. If the law changes, then we intend to break it. We do not list our patients.
But in the Tidö Agreement it is stated that healthcare can be exempted – why are you starting the campaign anyway?
– It remains to be seen. We consider it important to make it clear that we will never identify our patients. There is a need for preparedness against the proposal.
Flyers handed out in hospitals across the country – and on social media – are now calling on healthcare workers to anonymously join the campaign by making a digital pledge to never name patients. Late on Thursday evening, over 500 people had signed the petition.