When the weather turns wrong
On Tuesday we can read about patient Øyvind Seljeseth who made several attempts to get to hospital in one of the winter’s most harsh weeks. It probably did at least 100 others too, both from Alta and elsewhere.
Of course, consultations are canceled or exposed also creates major challenges for the hospital, where demanding logistics should be rattled in place.
We still think it is wise to have hospitals where most people live, possibly that they had done their utmost to have as many specialist health services as possible at the Alta clinic. The ambitions of 3000 more consultations have not been achieved, but we hope the local heart specialist and increased focus on ear-nose throat in Alta contribute to an increase. It’s about will.
It also shows the build -up of a good psychiatric offer in Alta, which we must not be forgotten in the calculations.
We also believe that it would have been wise to turn the spending from travel to treatment, including through day surgery in Alta and not least offensive commitment to the ambulation of specialists.
There may be good reasons for sending politicians on an extra Finnmark tour in the winter weather. It may certainly be seen as little « productive » for busy national politicians on voting, but in return they get first -hand experience about how the world appears in other parts of the country.
Maybe it even means that we get human patient travel rules and experiences when the weather is tight.
We know where we live are also among well -used clichés that are used to explain that weather and wind are challenging, but at the same time not enough to scare us away.
The harsh nature and people are perhaps more than enough to make the choice to stay here, while Norway needs both the raw materials, the values and the presence. Right now, in a troubled world, it may be advantageous to have settlement and the defense close to the Russian border.
