Don’t close down the ambulance services. This message from the children in Los last year at the meeting between politicians and the general public, was the introductory remark used by the County Council Director at this year’s opening of the FLISA conference in Gävle on Tuesday.

There were 700 participants, 60 exhibitors, 45 lecturers and a large number of ambulances at the Läkerol Arena in Gävle. This ambulance congress is an annual event which started in Jämtland in 1985. Politicians, ambulance directors
and ambulance medical staff from the whole country gathered to take
part of the latest news during the three day period of 6-8 of September.

”This is the main event of the year and everyone is here”, says Paul Kongstad the chiarman of FLISA, (the society for  those responsible for leadership within Swedish ambulance care) who is responsible for the congress.

On Thursday, the 8th, one of the lecturers is Mikael Andersson. He usually attracts many listeners with his unforgetable and inspiring lectures. He is one of the most
popular speakers in Sweden and Norway. Mikael was born without arms
or legs and has had to struggle to get that which others take for granted. Mikael’s lectures are about resources and the possibilities  in life.

”I creat my own reality and am responsible for what happens in my life. It is the power of the mind which is my greatest resource and which determines if I choose life or not”, says Mikael Andersson who has written the book – Without
arms, without legs, but not without hope.

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