Via YLE.fin: Swine Flu Disrupts Public Health Care services Excerpt:.
The H1N1swine flu epidemic will disrupt basic health care services and specialist hospital care for several months to come. Although the peak of the outbreak has been reached across most of Finland, the number of sufferers remains high. The on-going vaccination programme will also take its toll on health care resources.
According to Helena Mussalo-Rauhamaa, the Senior Physician for the State Provincial Office of Southern Finland, basic health care services will not return to normal for a long time owing to the vaccination programme for the H1N1 virus.
She noted that in the third week of November alone, some 10,000 swine flu patients visited health centres. Looking ahead to next year, she says normal seasonal influenza will also add to the burden.
