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Beds at Stavanger Hospital are full of worsening covid-19 disease, respiratory disease and the RS virus. At the same time, the record number of hospital employees is on layoffs.
- We have nurses who cry at work, have high blood pressure and start to feel symptoms of stress. Sick leave is high. Especially in the pediatric ward and in the intensive care unit, he reports chief trustee of nurses, Mette Øfstegaard.
It tells about employees who show up at work not knowing when they can come home. Some work in two shifts and work up to 17 hours a day.
According to CEO Eldar Søreide, sick leave is now up to 15 percent because of sickness or the fact that employees have sick children.
- There is no staff reserve when it comes to staff. Most of the people working at this hospital have worked a lot in the last year and a half. We are doing everything we can to ensure that the workload does not become too heavy for the employees who have to work in addition, he says.
Source: NTB
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