Almost all municipalities have shortcomings in their work with placements of children and young people, a national inspection by the Swedish Health and Social Care Inspectorate (Ivo) has found. “We see a need for development to ensure that children and young people receive the protection and support they need,” says Director General John Ahlberk.
SwedenHome health care was contacted several times about a woman’s leg pain, but no nurse examined her. Her leg ultimately had to be amputated.
SwedenA man in Laxå did not receive his prostate cancer medication for nine months because staff forgot to give it.
SwedenFour elderly people died at a nursing home in Mölndal in January after an outbreak of norovirus, reports Mölndals-Posten.
SwedenA home care recipient in Östergötland was found dead despite having raised the alarm on their security alarm, P4 Östergötland reports.
SwedenThe girl repeatedly reported that her foster father was abusing her, but social services still forced her to stay in his home. The 17-year-old was moved only after recording his sexual advances. The man has now been sentenced to prison for seven counts of rape of a child.
CrimeAn elderly man died after falling from a fourth-floor balcony at Nyköping Hospital this summer.
SwedenThe Health and Social Care Inspectorate (Sweden’s health and social care regulator) is closing its investigation into the former pediatrician who incorrectly declared many children with heart disease healthy.
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