She has lost hope of getting the municipalities in Suðuroy to cooperate

After having been in the city council for 12 years, I have lost all hope that it will succeed in getting all the municipalities in Suðuroy to cooperate in this area.

This is what Anita Vibergsdóttir, councilor of Tvøroyri, and also deputy mayor says. And she says this in connection with the fact that Tvøroyri City Council has agreed to work on a single plan to build a health center for all the Southern Islands.

The health center will be a medical center with consultation rooms for five municipal doctors, but in addition it is planned to provide facilities for other health services.

As we wrote in an article earlier, the doctors want there to be a common municipal medical center for all the Southern Islands.

Read more about it here: https://dimma.fo/article/doctors-will-have-a-joint-medical-centre-for-all-the-southern-islands

When this is the wish of the doctors, councilors in Tvøroyri are surprised that the parliament has finally approved that there should be two health centers in Suðuroy.

At the same time, Vágur City Council has also announced that the health center in Vágur will be expanded to create conditions to provide more health services and to meet the future need for health services.

Thus, both Vágur City Council and Tvøroyri City Council are working on plans to expand the health sector.

– It is remarkable that the Icelandic Parliament agrees that there can be two health centers in Suðuroy when it goes directly against the wishes of the doctors, says Kristin Michelsen, Mayor.

But he also confirmed dryly that there is only one voluntary cooperation between all the municipalities in Suðuroy – and that is the cooperation on the hearse.

All other cooperation, the elderly, child welfare, and others, is imposed on municipalities by law.

Annita Vibergsdóttir says she was shocked when the Icelandic Parliament approved that there should be two health centers in Suðuroy.

But she confirmed at the same time that after 12 years in the city council she has lost hope that the municipalities in Suðuroy will find an agreement on this issue.

Therefore, she agrees that Tvøroyri City Council is working further on the plan to build a health center on Tvøroyri, where the municipal doctors are in one part of the building, and that conditions will be created for other health services in other parts of the building.