In a letter to the hospital management, 87 midwives at Karolinska University Hospital in the Stockholm region asked the Director of Operations and the Director of Obstetrics in Huddinge to leave their duties. mentioned SVT News Stockholm Thursday morning. “We want management that communicates with us, that listens and understands business,” they write in the message seen by SVT.

Writing comes after a turbulent time. Since the beginning of the year, 30 midwives have quit. The hospital announced that the staff should be hired on a short-term basis. But at the same time, there is a lack of that efficiency.

As repeated in the letter to the hospital management: The midwives warn that the patient’s safety may be threatened by a shortage of staff.

On Thursday afternoon, the Karolinska University Hospital in a press release They will now “check pregnancy and childbirth activities”. An independent external team, together with the employees and managers of the company, should “develop an action plan for the development of work methods and organization.”

The team consists of a midwife and a doctor with experience in this field. They must analyze providing efficiency, ergonomics, quality and organization. They should describe the position the employees want as well as an action plan to get there. Work will start in about a week and finish by the end of April.

– Now, unfortunately, a number of midwives have chosen to leave us at the same time that there is concern in the medical team, says hospital director Bjorn Zuga in the press release.

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– Then we choose an experienced doctor and an experienced midwife from abroad who can analyze our actions and see with fresh eyes how we can move forward together. I hope that as many employees as possible will take the opportunity to contribute their knowledge to the development of pregnancy and childbirth in Karolinska.