Skåne University Hospital 2.61

Skåne University Hospital is a university hospital in Scania, Sweden. The hospital was founded in 2010 through the merger of the two university hospitals in Lund and Malmö. According to the head of emergency surgery at SUS in a 2017 interview, bullet wounds turned from previously rare occurrences into a frequent phenomenon, the hospital got used to treating such patients.Security measures at MalmöViolence and threats are a common occurrence at the hospital's emergency room in Malmö and therefore guards are employed on a 24hr basis, and emergency lock down has been installed along with security cameras. All employees have been given training in self-defence and wear alarms in case they are attacked. The emergency lock down makes it impossible for threatening people outside the building to enter the premises. The reason for these measures is an upsurge in aggressive patients with drug problems and a society where levels of violence are on the rise due to the level of organised crime using lethal violence based in Malmö. In March 2017 the emergency room started locking its door between 2100-0500 to reduce the number of violent incidents involving people who sought to meet or get information about patients.In a 2017 interview, a nurse at the hospital described the bullet wound patients and their visitors as frequently issuing threats of violence, murder and rape. As a result, the staff has stopped wearing name badges after a visitor to one such patient took a photo of the staff board, which was also taken down. This represented a change from some years earlier when members of organised crime would have knife rather than bullet wounds and not threaten hospital staff. When bullet wound patients are on the premises, frequently their relatives and enemies gather outside and consequently staff only dare leave the premises in groups and never alone at the end of their shifts. As a result of these developments, the hospital introduced a scheme in June 2016 on how the hospital would respond when dangerous patients and their entourage or enemies entered the premises.