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11月17日付け、ノルウェーの「Aftenposten」より、ショッキングなニュース。
国連によって「世界一住みやすい国」とランク付けされたノルウェーで、癌にかかった73才の男性が、何と5つもの病院を転々とした後、ベッドに空きがなく、手術日を2、3日後に控えた8月下旬、他界していたことが判明。大ニュースとなっている。
Ivar Bolin氏は具合が悪くなってから、検査の為に2,3ヶ所の病院をたらいまわしにされた結果、車椅子もベッドもない病院にたどり着いた。しかし、廊下でしか休めないことから、検査を受けた後、自分のキャビンに戻った。
癌だと判明してからは、さらにさまざまな検査を受けるために、オスロにある病院から病院を転々と。ここでも病院内には、車椅子もベッドもなかった。検査が終わるまで3週間、8月22日に手術日が決まったが、その2、3日前に彼は自宅のあるキャビンで静かに永眠した。
彼の妻は、「スケープゴートを見つけるために苦情を言うつもりはない。関わってくれた人たちは皆、素晴らしい人たちだった。しかし、このシステムには問題がある。私はこれを問題にしていきたい」と語っている。
No room at five hospitals
Ivar Bolin spent the final weeks of his life being driven from hospital to hospital, and died in the family cabin while waiting for a cancer operation.
The story highlights the perplexing situation of acute lack of hospital capacity in a wealthy country that is regularly named the world's best country to live in.
After falling ill with headaches, a swelling around the right eye and a lump on the throat, 73-year-old Ivar Bolin was denied a spot at Moss and Fredrikstad Hospitals in southeastern Norway.
A call to emergency services managed to free up a spot in Fredrikstad nonetheless, but he was shortly moved to the Diakonhjemmet in Oslo, a diaconal hospital affiliated with the state church. Here he could only get a space in a corridor and, unable to rest, chose to leave.
After being diagnosed with cancer, an endless cycle of attempts to gain a hospital spot turned into a series of tiring trips being driven from hospital to hospital in the region, for a battery of tests.
"When we were at (Oslo's Ullevål University) Hospital for tests Ivar was so tired he couldn't walk. But they didn't have a wheelchair I found out. I got an office chair. I pushed him around in that. It was hard for me, but most tiring and demeaning for Ivar," his wife Kari told Aftenposten.
After about three weeks of tests and going back and forth between Oslo's Rikshospitalet, Diakonhjemmet and Ullevål, Bolin finally got a date of August 22 for his operation. The Bolins returned to their cabin for some peace for a few days, but he passed away before surgery. Wife Kari is convinced that all the stress caused the heart failure that took her husband's life.
"Maybe he was spared a lot of pain and suffering, but the last weeks of his life were not good. They were a continuous nightmare of closed doors in hospital Norway," Kari said.
Kari Bolin said that she is not registering a complaint in order to find a scapegoat.
"We met many wonderful staff. But there must be something seriously wrong with the system when one can experience what we did. It is the system that I want in the spotlight," she said.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1536556.ece
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2006年のノルウェーの65才以上の人口は、682,469人(全人口:4,640,219人。約15%)
http://www.ssb.no/folkemengde_en/tab-2006-02-23-01-en.html
高福祉のモデル国といわれている。
http://www.takemotonaokazu.com/katudou/20040905.html
http://www.mable.ne.jp/~matue-seki/norway.htm
しかし、こういったことも現実に起きているのだ。
さて日本はどうなるのか?
http://www8.cao.go.jp/kourei/whitepaper/w-2003/zenbun/html/F1152000.html
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