The Medical Council of the Health Center and Fjörðungssúkrahús in Ísafjörður strongly objects to the proposals to cut health care contributions, which appear in the recently released budget bill. In particular, there is a protest against the 42.61 TP3T cut in donations to the medical department of the Fjörður Hospital in Ísafjörður. Such a cut would upset the operations of Fjörðungsgyðurhús and create great insecurity in the entire health service of the region.

The health care in the northern part of the Westfjords will only be run if there is a powerful hospital behind it, which can provide efficient emergency treatment for all cases of accidents and illnesses.

It is the opinion of the Medical Council that the primary care hospital, as currently planned, could never take over the intensive work that has been carried out at the Fjörður Hospital in Ísafjörður until now. It can be assumed that a large part of the patients who now receive a solution to their problems at Fjörðungssykrahúsin would have to be transferred at great expense from such a health care hospital quickly to a high-tech hospital, where each day of hospitalization is presumably significantly more expensive. It is not necessary to mention the direct inconvenience and inconvenience to patients that results from such trips.

The Medical Council points out the geography and weather conditions in the Westfjords, which are obvious to most people and lead to unsafe transportation. These proposals threaten the safety and well-being of the residents of the area.

The Medical Council calls on the budget committee to withdraw this proposal for a 42.6% cut in the medical field, but to ask the management of the institution for cooperation for savings and optimization that would be done according to the ideas of the local people, but in such a way that the reduction of health services does not threaten the safety of the area.

Medical Council,

Finnbogi O. Karlsson
Weekend Kr. Sigmundsson
Úlf Gunnarsson
Thorsteinn Jóhannesson
Thorður Guðmundsson
Örn E. Ingason


Chief: THOUGH