High manager in the City of Gothenburg is forced away after a health scandal

The information about the neglect became commonly known by one Reporting in Sweden’s Radio Caliber a week ago.

At the accommodation, people with different types of brain damage live and they need a lot of support. But there, for several years, a culture of serious neglect, especially about the nights, developed, where staff could leave residents in their stools and where they failed to respond to alarms.

Despite numerous reports of maladministration, it took last summer before the management took hold of the case, then according to P 1’s caliber, up to 400 deviation reports must have been received since the accommodation was opened.

Two employees who Was up to sleep at work had to quit an annual salary in compensation, the 15 other in the current working group were relocated within the City of Gothenburg.

After the radio program was broadcast, the party Democrats Martin Wannholt chose to report the police case for suspected abuse and service errors.

The political disability committee was called this day for extra meeting, which is held on Wednesday afternoon. To the meeting has the red -green board suggested that an external Review should be added to respond to « how this neglect could be done in this systematic way without managers at different levels reacting or acting ».

But also “look over What the labor law process looked like with regard to the purchases and relocations made. « 

The administration is also proposed to « carry out inspections on all support and service housing » to exit that something similar exists in other places.

The parties M, D, L, KD and C have made a similar suggestion Where they want to « identify at what levels in the organization there have been deficiencies in leadership, responsibility and follow -up », While SD also wants See « unannounced checks » and « carry out a targeted information effort to clarify that Swedish is the common language in all professional communication in the workplace. »

But already on Tuesday According to information to the DN, the Board’s Red -Green Board therefore chose to announce that the highest manager of the functional support, with a total of 6,200 employees, must end on the day with reference to lack of confidence.

However, the chairman of the committee Håkan Hallengren (S), when DN spoke to him on Tuesday, did not want to confirm the decision to lift the chief manager.

– I have no comments on it, but it is true that we have a meeting on Wednesday, says Hallengren.

That type of action Should be decided by the entire committee and according to information to DN, the Board has not agreed to take such a step already, before more information is available on the table on how the information about the neglect was handled in the manager.