CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
A gynaecology patient waiting room.
and nuclear power are universally available, and many energy companies plan to end the use of coal, gas, and peat, by 2035. Some public hospitals have already claimed they will be carbon-neutral by 2030.7 In 2020, the Hospital District of
Southwest Finland introduced a new five-year Sustainability Programme, which includes a number of steps for better waste management, energy efficiency, and staff, in specialised public healthcare. We intend to implement these principles in all our present and future hospital construction projects, such as the Lighthouse Hospital that opened in Turku
A waiting room for surgery patients.
in February 2022, replacing an outdated 1960s building. Healthcare technology is widely used in Finnish hospitals, health centres, and in people’s homes, providing communication and alert systems, or supporting use of pharmaceuticals and self-monitoring. With widening use of 5G technology,
we can expect better quality in data transfer from ambulances to consultants, or in diagnostic image analysis. Remote communication between homes and hospitals will become more efficient. Companies and the academic world are already working together to develop artificial intelligence (AI), and
some experiments have already been undertaken in implementing AI in patient care. We expect AI to effectively assist in monitoring people’s health, as well as in decision-making and contributing more to efficient use of human resources where actual personal contact is required. Due to current demographic trends in Finland, we cannot realistically expect the number of personnel employed in healthcare to increase at the same pace as patient numbers.
A strategy for adaptation Finland was one of the first countries to publish a National Strategy for Adaptation
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