Posted on 08/20/2017 4:16:16 PM PDT by aquila48
A series of demonstrations were held in towns and cities across Sweden on Saturday, in protest against the "chaos" at the country's maternity wards. In 16 Swedish towns and cities demonstrators Demonstrators -- including midwives and members of the public -- took to the streets to march for better maternity care.
READ ALSO: More mums flown to Finland to give birth due to overcrowding at Swedish hospital
Around 170 protesters had gathered in Jönköping in southern Sweden. Emily Wallstedt, one of the organizers, said there had been no response yet from the county council politicians, but she remained hopeful.
"Hopefully it sends a clear message that it's members of the public, and not an organization, who have had enough. The ball is in the politicians' court; they need to listen to the people and to the midwives," Wallstedt told TT newswire.
Organized by Födelsevrålet, a non-profit representing pregnant women who have experienced problems during childbirth, the demonstrations follow a number of high-profile stories from recent months exposing the strained maternity care situation in Sweden.
In January, two Swedish midwives made international headlines when they launched a course instructing expectant parents on how to give birth in a car, as the pending closure of Sellefteå’s maternity ward would mean a journey of up to 200 kilometres to the nearest ward. The Sollefteå maternity ward subsequently closed as planned due to cost-cutting measures, despite protesters occupying the building.
Other stories to grab headlines include a Swedish midwife who went viral when she explained that there is no time to urinate or change sanitary products during night shifts at a Stockholm hospital, and instances of families being flown to Finland to give birth as an emergency solution to overcrowding at Swedish maternity wards.
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And to think all these years, we were getting called “ugly Americans”. smdh
Welfare state with open borders. What could possibly go wrong? Hmmm Trudeau?
When you build facilities to match utilization rates, and then import a large number of folks who breed like rats, I can see how a system overload could occur.
When a service is “free” it is hardly surprising when the level of service drops steadily towards zero.
Kick out all of the terrorists and use the money that had been being spent on them to improve maternity care.
It has been bad for years in Sweden. My son was born in Gothenburg 15 years ago. There were only 2 birthing centers in a city of 450,000+- .
You go to both in advance to see which one you want to go to.
We called our choice, Molndahl, when wife’s water broke. They said no room. So we called Ostra. They said no room.
We called Molndahl back and they said to drive to Helsingborg - 140 miles away(even though her water had already broken.)
We said we are coming there anyway.
Wife gave birth in a general appointment room with nothing but a hand held baby heart rate monitor and a bottle of nitrous oxide. Funny when you look back at it but not at the time.
No one can ever convince me of the merits of socialized medicine.
It wasn’t long ago that Sweden and its mostly homogeneous middle class population of long time Swedes was considered one of the best countries. Then they were invaded by outsiders and elites who pushed their stupid venomous brand of PC multi-culturalism on others. These globalists are the enemy of westerners just as they were in sub Sahara Africa.
Good luck with that.
Is it the medicine or a system overloaded with outsiders invited in by liberals and a cheap labor lobby?
Socialized medicine is bad no matter who runs it. Sweden cuts costs by running their birthing centers/midwives like a production line. Prenatal care is thru midwives, we only saw a dr one time (to get an amniocentesis test).
You had a different midwife for each prenatal visit. Whoever was next when they pull your number, just like at the BMV here. And a new midwife at the hospital that you’ve never met.
It very well may be much worse now, I’m out of the loop for these things now. At the time, it wasn’t immigration that was the cause, it was just an IKEA style of healthcare. Cheap and fragile with a prettty veneer.
They have to pull costs out wherever they can. I’m sure things are worse with immigration. Before, it was Iranians and Jordanians and the like. They are half way clean and tidy people. But now Sweden is letting in the dregs - Afgans, Algerians, “Palestinians”, Somalis.
They are really running down the medical services and the support systems are getting overloaded in general.
They’re popping them Mohamuds out like crazy over there. Need to make them maturity wards halal now.
How can they be closed for costs savings when they are free under socialize medicine?
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