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Karasjok Municipality Fined 300,000 Kroner for Breaching Health Personnel Law

From Aftenposten · () Norwegian

Translated from Norwegian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Karasjok municipality received a 300,000-kroner fine for violating Norway’s Health Personnel Act.
  • The penalty followed the discovery of a woman’s body outside a care residence on Jan. 3, 2025, in temperatures of minus 30 Celsius.

Karasjok municipality has received a 300,000-kroner penalty for breaching Norway’s Health Personnel Act, Finnmark police district said in a press release.

The action followed the discovery of a woman dead outside a care residence in the municipality on Jan. 3, 2025. Temperatures had reached minus 30 degrees Celsius when she died.

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Originally published by Aftenposten in Norwegian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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