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Åland’s Hospital Readiness Gap

For an island health service, disrupted transport can quickly become a medical problem. A newly adopted strategy exposes unfinished work behind emergency preparations.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 4

A health strategy adopted by Åland’s government on October 29 and brought before its parliament on November 4identifies an unfinished overhaul of emergency planning within the islands’ public health service.

Åland, a Swedish-speaking autonomous region of Finland in the Baltic Sea, relies on Ålands hälso- och sjukvård (ÅHS) for public healthcare. The stra…

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