On Thursday, an ambulance was sent to the same address in Harmånger in Nordanstig municipality – an emergency call that resulted in both a police report and a work injury report to the Work Environment Authority.
Liselott Sjöqvist, head of operations for the emergency department and ambulance in Region Gävleborg, says that the information should have reached those who responded to the emergency call on Saturday.
They have probably discussed it at the station, but this particular crew that responded knew nothing about it, she says.
The previous incident occurred on Thursday and the later one on Saturday, maybe they were off duty, I do not know.
Threatened with a baseball bat
She does not want to give any details about what happened on Thursday.
But Henrik Johansson, union secretary for the Ambulance Association, has through information from several colleagues and contacts in other trade unions and other emergency services a picture of what happened.
He says that the ambulance was called to the address in Harmånger, north of Hudiksvall, after the man in his 25s mentioned suicide in an emergency call.
The person is said to have been aggressive and threatening towards the ambulance staff, which resulted in a police unit responding and taking him to psychiatry, he says.
The man is said to have threatened them with a baseball bat, but no one is said to have been physically injured.
Henrik Johansson questions why the person was even on the loose on Saturday, after Thursday's events. According to Ekot's information, the man has previously been sentenced to probation after violent acts.
This is a very strange handling.
Journals in the car
Liselott Sjöqvist says that the ambulance in Hudiksvall must review its procedures.
One has access to ambulance journals in the car. When one is on the way to an address, one should go in and look in the journal, check the diagnosis or symptoms, this must be a change in routine.
So there was a journal with this information that the staff did not take note of on Saturday?
Yes, there was.
The Ambulance Association has long driven the issue of what is called flagging – that after an emergency call, an automatic check is made on the address or person in the police register, and that it is flagged if there has been previous violence.
Then we do not need to know what it is. We just want to know that here we should not go without the police, says Johansson.
