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Updated 08.40 | Published 05.59
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Security guards are brought in, the emergency department is reinforced and the staff is urged to be careful.
When Malmö hosts Eurovision, Skåne University Hospital takes a series of measures to ensure the safety of the staff.
Several protests and demonstrations are expected – at the same time as 100,000 Schlager fans take over Malmö ahead of this weekend’s Eurovision final.
Skåne’s university hospital, Sus, has been preparing for several weeks together with the police and the municipality for possible unrest, says chief physician Sven Karlsson.
– We have a crisis and preparedness plan that we rely on in this type of context. We have practiced it on several occasions in recent years, he says.
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full screen Sven Karlsson, chief physician at Skåne University Hospital. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
Reinforcement in the emergency room
They have already activated something they call special crisis management, an adapted management group that meets every day and makes assessments of the situation.
– When there are more people on the move in town, you can also assume an increased number of applicants to the emergency department for common ailments. There has been a certain strengthening within emergency care and also intensive care to prepare for that, says Sven Karlsson.
The chief physician is tight-lipped about how the ongoing care conflict – where the Vårdförbundet has blocked overtime and new hires for 63,000 members – affects the situation.
– It is included as one of the prerequisites in the planning, but we handle it as a special track, he says.
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full screen Skåne University Hospital is strengthening the surveillance of the hospital area in Malmö ahead of Eurovision. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
More guards
There is no specific threat to the hospital, emphasizes Cetin Caliskan, acting head of security, but the surveillance of the hospital area in Malmö has nevertheless been strengthened.
“This means, among other things, that all businesses will be visited a couple of times a day by security guards who can respond to any concerns among employees,” he writes in an email to TT.
The hospital management has also urged all employees to pay extra attention to their surroundings, and to be careful about spreading rumours.
“Right now we all need to be extra careful with source criticism to distinguish between facts and rumors in social media. We know that many organizations work intensively to spread incorrect information to create concern about the event”, writes Cetin Caliskan.
