Districts Right pushed Høie to retain emergency surgery – Hamar Dagblad

Health and Human Services Bent Høie has mooted the idea that only the largest hospitals must have clock surgical emergency preparedness. Acute Surgery is considered by many as the mainstay of the hospitals, and plans have caused concern in rural areas.

Conservative fylkesleder Elin Agdestein Nord-Trondelag is among those who have fronted fight against the party leadership. She feared that local hospitals could be weakened to a level which is not acceptable.

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The congress stood Sunday behind a proposed amendment from seven regional organization, which establishes that local and regional considerations should be given weight.

– It was very important for us to record the concerns we had, and I think we reached with the message . It Høie has presented earlier, was too categorical demands, says she said.

Just as important as the decision itself, it was to get a proper debate about local hospitals, she says.

– It is not our aim to insist on all local hospitals into the future. But the hospitals we should have, should also have an appropriate offer, she says.

– Displays deep unrest

– What we see is a district rebellion brewing. Høie have now received a signal that there is deep unease out in the country, and I’m not surprised that it comes. But I’m not sure how big real impact it will have, say health policy spokeswoman Tove Karoline Knutsen from Labor said.

In hospitals speech in January described Høie that hospitals with fewer than 60,000 to 80,000 patients in the catchment area could run without days staffed emergency surgery. It would thus apply half of the country’s hospitals. Later moderated he statements that there would be geographical considerations.

– This proposal, combined with increased privatization of health care, creating a very, very strong centralizing effect, says Knutsen.

Høie rejects NTB that there has been no contradictions between him and district politicians in question. He summarizes congress decision as a clear signal that he agrees. This takes him in efforts to hammer out the national hospital plan, which comes in the fall.

Centre Party Kjersti Toppe thinks Høie has gained a strong corrective and clear fillip from its own ranks.

– Høie has previously made it almost as a law of nature that the surgery must be more specialized and disappear from local hospitals, she said.

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– wool

Conservative congress went in for a formulation that medical progress should not lead to an unnecessary centralization of emergency and maternity care that provide security locally.

The party will have hospital with “good and safe medical and surgical emergency facility in the country.”

The wording is so woolly that it is difficult to say what actually will happen to the small and medium-sized hospitals, says Labor and the Center.

– I mean the decision indicates that there is a lower limit, and that it goes by cutting emergency surgery. But it depends on political will how this decision will be followed up, says Toppe.