In a significant move impacting Swedish healthcare, 63,000 healthcare professionals, including midwives, biomedical analysts, radiology nurses, and nurses, have initiated an overtime and additional work boycott starting at 4 PM today.

This collective action comes after their demands for reduced working hours, sustainable schedules, and equitable wage increases were repeatedly ignored.

The healthcare workers' union asserts that this step is essential to address the chronic understaffing and overwork issues plaguing Sweden's healthcare system, which they believe jeopardizes both patient and worker health.

In response, Region Örebro, among others, is adjusting its operational planning, prioritizing critical medical care while delaying some elective surgeries to manage the effects of the boycott.

This situation underscores the urgent need for long-term solutions to the challenges facing Swedish healthcare.