Published: 1 Feb 12 08:51 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/38842/20120201/
A woman whose boyfriend died after she was unable to get through to Swedish emergency response service SOS Alarm has reported the matter to health authorities.
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SOS Alarm is 100% owned and managed by the state health authorities that emply its services. It is effectively a state run service already.
People need to be held accountable for their actions, including being held responsible for a death if your job is to answer the emergency call. The person that was supposed to have answered the call needs to be both fired and pursued for any claims from the victim for financial compensation.
However, as this is not a first occasion they should actually fire the entire upper management and get people in there that can handle the responsibility of saving lives.
The problem in Sweden is that people just point fingers and take no responsibility.
Scepticion is right as well.
It being private or state run doesn't / wouldn't make one bit of difference. You get sh#t service at privately owned businesses as well as at government places here. It's peoples' attitudes that need to change much more than the system.
Until Swedes start caring more about doing a good job while at work (being competent, getting things done in a timely manner and taking care of customers / patients etc.) than taking fika breaks, texting and chatting on the phone and acting like they're doing people a favor by being there working, nothing will change.
Swedes are taught from day one however, to take whatever is given to them and accept it without complaint and that "lagom" is best and wanting or expecting more than that makes you a bad person.
Until that attitude changes, nothing else will.
We don't know if SOS was swamped with calls, if there was faulty equipment, or if someone was just taking a long coffee break.
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