Pressed Høie agreement in hospitals – Adresseavisen

Parliamentarian Elin Agdestein from Nord-Trøndelag has led the way in a hospital and district rebellion within the Conservative Party.

Nord-Trondelag has been joined by a majority of county teams on several proposals that are nothing more district-friendly than the management wanted. Agdestein and Chairman of Nord-Trøndelag Women’s Forum, Hilde Melhus, admitted in Adresseavisen Saturday that they have been like hags against the flow of the Conservative party congress.

Victory

As Adresseavisen wrote Saturday’s background insurgency Health Bent Høies hospital speech in January where he said that “for conducting emergency surgery required a patient base of at least 60 to 80 000 inhabitants. That means that at least half of the current Norwegian hospitals have insufficient patient basis. ” Following this, there has been a lengthy tug of war.

The decision adopted Sunday, it says nothing about this. The insurgents’ greatest victory is that the formulation of “a separate specialty in emergency medicine,” was removed. The reason this is important is that this probably is a specialty you just may have on the biggest hospitals. And that one has received: “When acute life-threatening illness or injury occurs, the time factor is important.” Now it says also that the Conservatives will have surgical emergency facility in the country.

– The point is surgery, there is what is the critical factor. Without surgery, one can not call it a hospital anymore, says Agdestein.

Difficult to meet voters

Although she will not call the changes a victory. Instead, she says that she is happy.

– This is no victory over Bent. I am glad we managed to collect us formulations whole party now can stand behind. The debate at the Congress has made clear that the Right will have safety and proper proximity to emergency surgery. Anything else would have been very difficult to meet voters in the districts. We have bad weather and poor roads and can not base the acute hospital services on ambulances and helicopters. It will not be scientifically defensible, says Agdestein – who themselves have experience of the sector.

Agdestein stresses that result not least is important because health minister Bent Høie now dealing with the national healthcare plan which will be presented one month after the election, in October.