Operations postponed
The swine flu epidemic has forced the Norwegian National Hospital (Rikshospitalet) in Oslo to postpone operations on children and patients with heart problems, due to a shortage of surgeons and nurses.
The situation is also becoming difficult at the intensive care units at several other large hospitals in Norway.
The National Hospital in Oslo has had to ask patients to come back for their operations next week.
Norwegian health authorities are now investigating into the possibility that the swine flu epidemic in Norwais of a different strain than that which has hit the other Nordic countries.
In Norway altogether 13 persons have so far died from the swine flu, while only two have died in Sweden and one in Denmark.
Up to now this has been seen as coincidence, and the fact that a large number of Norwegian travel abroad during their vacation.
Source: NRK/Norway Post
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