This is not about unauthorized personnel. Migrants are not used for professional healthcare services. The proponents of open borders who bring up foreign healthworkers, like to focus on professional personnel, but they are neither at risk of removal, nor the majority of foreign national healthcare workers. The vast majority of foreign national workers are used for unskilled and general labour activities such as kitchen workers, cleaners, orderlies and attendants. These jobs had high turnover and staffing shortages became acute when Covid was underway. Refugee claimants were sent to fill these jobs. Screening, background checks and training was intentionally skipped or overlooked just so long as bodies could be sent to facilities. The physical and sexual assaults on patients are real. It was not just Sweden. It was any country who took in migrants and sent them to senior care facilities and hospitals. The incidents are significantly under reported because it would require the facilities taking responsibility for the incidents. No government, whether it is in Sweden or Canada or Germany or Australia or the UK etc. wants to take responsibility for this serious problem. Ask the family members who raised the issue of physical abuse and neglect. Their concerns were dismissed. The worker unions certainly did their utmost to silence the issue using racial prejudice to distract from worker misconduct. Prior to Covid, Sweden had an estimated patient abuse rate of "one in five female patients and one in ten male patients " That's not me making up the data, but is taken from Toward an Understanding of Abuse in Health Care: A Female Patient Perspective, Brüggemann, A. Jelmer, Linköping University, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Gender and medicine. Linköping University, Faculty of Health Sciences. Abuse has a broad definition and the direct physical and verbal abuse and neglect by general workers is a distinct sub-category. There may not be thousands of incidents, but they occur.
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