2 On February 11, 1999 the government decided not to follow these recommendations.3 The Ersta Psychiatric Clinic The Ersta Psychiatric Clinic is selleckchem specifically devoted to treating hospital personnel, its first responsibility being to hospital

personnel from Stockholm County Council area. The Psychiatric Clinic is part of Ersta Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical Hospital, which is owned by the Ersta Deaconess Society, a nonprofit association in close connection with the Church of Sweden. It has 40 employees, which makes it the smallest psychiatric clinic in Stockholm. Because Ersta does not belong to Stockholm County Council, Ersta Hospital was the only emergency hospital that had not received disaster emergency training. What can we at Ersta do to help the victims? This question was to be often

raised Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical on the day of the catastrophe and the following days. As Ersta Hospital was not part of the emergency plan, the answer was obvious. Ersta should continue with its habitual health care activities and let the other hospitals concentrate on helping the victims. During the first days, the Psychiatric Clinic at Ersta Hospital kept on with the daily psychiatric workload as planned. However, just two days after the catastrophe, relatives of the Estonia passengers started to call. A company, many employees of Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical which had been on board the Estonia, also called the clinic asking if we could do something to help since the crisis groups in Stockholm were being shut down. Ersta learned that 7 of the 9 hospitals in Stockholm had shut down their Estonia crisis groups because so few people Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical had contacted them. Only the two university hospitals, Huddinge Hospital and Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, intended to keep their crisis groups going, at least for the following two days. The following day, Sweden’s largest morning newspaper carried an article about the distraught relative of a victim who had been turned away after showing up at a crisis center in Stockholm. Ersta Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical got in touch with the crisis centers at Huddinge and Karolinska, asking them if they were

going to start groups for the relatives. We could picture what would happen when all of the crisis groups had shut down and the relatives’ reactions began to multiply. After several enquiries, Calpain we learned that Huddinge and Karolinska had no intention of starting groups for relatives, leaving it up to Ersta to take the initiative. The weeks after the Estonia disaster The Sunday after the Estonia catastrophe, the decision was made to notify the relatives of the new crisis groups that were being set up at Ersta Hospital. An official memorial service was to be broadcast on the media throughout Sweden, and the Dean of the Church was asked to read a message to the relatives. However, instead, the message was distributed by hand to the persons attending the memorial service. The message wasn’t typed very well and part of it was in longhand.