Mother told to clean own room after caesarean
"Mother-of-two Elin Andersson has highlighted staffing shortage problems at a maternity ward in Sundsvall in northern Sweden after she was asked to clean out her own hospital room just two days after giving birth by caesarean section.
Every time Andersson required medicine she had to call staff to remind them, she told local newspaper Sundsvalls Tidning. The new baby's father meanwhile was requested to aid in the care of his partner.
Two days after the operation, the recovering mum decided she was ready to go home.
”That was when the midwife said I had one final task to perform. Then she went and got a big white laundry bag and asked me to clean out the room and the bed where I had lain,” she told the newspaper.
Two midwives at the Sundsvall maternity ward admitted that Elin Andersson painted an accurate picture of their workplace.
Woman left with longer leg after failed hip op
"A Swedish woman has reported two doctors for bit having told her that her hip operation was unsuccessful and left her to find out for herself that her walking problems were caused by having one leg "much longer" than the other.
"I have never received any information from the surgeon/orthopaedic clinic that the operation had been unsuccessful," the woman wrote in her report to Health and Medical Treatment Disciplinary Board (Hälso- och sjukvårdens ansvarsnämnd, HSAN).
Despite mentioning when leaving the clinic in Örnsköldsvik in northern Sweden that one of her legs felt longer than the other, the then 76-year-old woman was left to find out for herself after experiencing problems walking.
"A physiotherapist grabbed a tape measure and measured my legs. He concluded that my operated leg was 'much longer' and referred me to the orthopaedic department."
It was only then that the woman was provided with the information that her hip operation had been unsuccessful."
Jonas, 32, sewed up his own leg after ER wait
"A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork.
"It took such a long time," the man told the local Sundsvall Tidning daily.
The man incurred the deep cut when he sliced his leg on the sharp edge of a kitchen stove while he was renovating at home.
"I first went to the health clinic, but it was closed. So I rang the medical help line and they told me that it shouldn't be closed, so I went to emergency and sat there," the man named only as Jonas told the newspaper."
