The Sollefteå residents protest against proposals for reductions at the hospital. Several stores strike again on Saturday, when a demonstration train marches through the city.
We shut down the whole town, says Tova Modén, who visited all the traders in the city before the protest.
The hospital in Sollefteå is threatened by major reductions. The intensive care unit, orthopedics, anesthesia and surgeries, as well as child and adolescent medicine is proposed to disappear, which includes at least 146 services.
People are scared. Those who risk having a heart attack and stroke will have three hours longer transport route to emergency care, says John Åberg (S), opposition council in the municipality.
At 11 o’clock on Saturday, a demonstration train will be held to the hospital.
We have calculated with between 2,000 and 5,000 people. But it can come twice as many, says Åberg.
Tuva Modeen has caused the stores in Sollefteå to close.
Tuva Modeen has caused the stores in Sollefteå to close.
Photo: Private
“Got them to close”
Tova Modén from Långsele has visited traders in town before the demonstration, something that The magazine Ångermanland Be the first to tell.
I have been around to all stores throughout Sollefteå and got them to close down during the first hour of the manifestation, to show and pull even more people, she tells TT.
The response has been great, and she believes in great support.
It is canon weather for manifestation and I think there will be a lot of people, she says.
“Necessary,” according to the politicians
In 2017, the then S and MP-controlled region decided to close BB and the emergency surgery in Sollefteå, which led to major protests.
It feels like there is a long -term plan to really remove all care, says Åberg.
I have full understanding that people are cursed and upset. I myself am upset by this. It won’t end well.
Tova Modén’s mother worked as a midwife at BB in Sollefteå, and lost the job. Now it’s time for new reductions, and protests. Tova Modén does not believe that the regional politicians will give up this time either.
No, but it doesn’t matter because we will fight on, she says.
It is currently a political majority consisting of S, C and M that governs Region Västernorrland. The chairman of the Health and Medical Board Viktoria Jansson describes in one Press release the decision on the restructuring as necessary.
“We belong to the regions that spend the most money in Sweden on our hospital care while we have an underfunded primary care, it is not sustainable,” she says.