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Pressure on Heunicke: 'It is a breach of promise' | BT Politik - www.bt.dk Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke is now getting a plan from the Liberal Party, which is blaming the Social Democratic government for breach of promise. The Social Democrats promised in 2018 that all chronic patients by 2020 must have a patient-responsible doctor or nurse to whom they could go permanently. But today, nothing has happened to the great frustration of the hundreds of thousands of Danes who suffer from chronic diseases. "First of all, it is a breach of promise, and you have to keep what you promise. Apart from that, it is a huge problem that they have not delivered in this area, because it helps to create coherence in the health care system, "says the Liberal Party's health spokesman, Martin Geertsen, and adds:" I know there are many patient groups , who to a very large extent need more coherence in their meeting with the health service. ”In an interview with DR, Magnus Heunicke points to the corona pandemic as the reason why it has not been possible to deliver on the election promise. Martin Geertsen does not give much for that explanation. »There has not been such a galloping corona for two and a half years. It is based on such an assumption that Heunicke should sit and negotiate with doctors and nurses. The task is, after all, for politicians to sit down and look at it. I could well find room in my calendar for negotiations. I also think that Heunicke could do that, "says Martin Geertsen. Martin Geertsen (V) arrives for a meeting of the Epidemic Committee at Christiansborg, Wednesday 26 January 2022. The Epidemic Committee holds a meeting on the corona situation .. (Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix) One of the country's largest patient associations, the Arthritis Association, also accuses the S-government to fail the approximately 700,000 arthritis patients in Denmark. "We experience that the large group of chronically ill patients has not been included in the plan, and that is a huge problem. There is no correlation for chronically ill and arthritis patients. You have to be able to do that better, "says Mette Bryde Lind, who is director of the Arthritis Association. In the past week, the Liberal Party raised Magnus Heunicke in consultation in another case, where the government has also not been able to live up to the promise of vigil. B.T. has previously tried to get a comment from Magnus Heunicke, but the Ministry of Health has referred to the interview with DR. "Yes. So I must admit that we would have done this well before. But now came the corona that our healthcare system had to deal with. Of course, that has meant that we have had to shoot some of the other things, "Magnus Heunicke said. Check it out here Media: The votes have been counted On bare bottom: ABROAD ABROAD Berlingske Media A / S Pilestræde 34 DK-1147 Copenhagen KTlf. +45 33 75 75 33 CVR.no .: 29 20 73 13