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Sweden ready to receive burn victims

by AI | 02.Jan 2026 | Europe in brief AI

After the fire disaster in Crans-Montana, Switzerland has sent a request for international assistance, which is now being coordinated within the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Sweden is ready to receive patients.

Sweden's Minister of Health Care Elisabet Lann. Nicklas Thegerström/TT

Stockholm – Sweden has offered Switzerland to receive injured patients from the fire disaster at the ski resort Crans-Montana.

Switzerland has sent a request for international assistance, which is now being coordinated within the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.

“We are ready,” says Minister of Health Elisabet Lann to TT.

“It is an urgent situation, many of these patients are very seriously injured and need advanced care immediately.”

It concerns intensive care beds for severely burned patients, expertise, and transports with medical capacity. In Sweden, it is the University Hospital in Linköping and the Academic Hospital in Uppsala that primarily have the highly specialized care that has been requested.

Several countries, including neighboring countries Germany and Italy, have also offered support.

(2 January)