Merja
Laaksonen
West Uusimaa
"We all deserve safe elderly care and accesible health care "
A good municipality is first and foremost measured by the wellbeing of its residents. It is a community where everyone feels safe and has access to necessary services locally.
These services naturally include health- and care services like housing services to the elderly. We are all entitled to grow old with dignity.
I have been active in many positions of trust in Siuntio municipal as well as during the last three years within the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County.
My working career is a combination of different work assignments within public administration in my home community Siuntio as well as the Defence Forces and on the private sector in global companies such as L M Ericsson and Hackman (Fiskars today). The last nine years I’ve worked as entrepreneur.
Important political topics
Accessible health care
These services naturally include health and care services like housing services to the elderly. We are all entitled to grow old with dignity.
Candidates answers in election machine
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Ambulance services should receive more resources so that the number of ambulances in the region increases rather than decreases.
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Services should be maintained in the regional hospitals in Raseborg and Lohja.
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The wellbeing services county of West Uusimaa should allocate more resources to language supplements to encourage staff to provide services in Swedish.
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There should be more mobile services, such as health buses and remote consultations.
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Wellbeing services counties must increase investments in preventive healthcare, even if it means that other types of care receive fewer resources.
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A personal doctor system should be introduced to improve continuity of care, even if it requires extra resources for a while.
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Wellbeing services counties should prohibit the use of temporary agency doctors.
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More shelter spaces should be established to help individuals subjected to violence.
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To shorten waiting times, wellbeing services counties should increase the use of service vouchers.
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Healthcare should be centralized if it saves money or improves quality.
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Funding and resources for rescue services should be prioritized higher, even if it means cuts in other sectors.
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Undocumented migrants should have the right to non-urgent healthcare.
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More emphasis should be placed on training healthcare staff in gender diversity and sexual diversity.
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