Construction of the nursing home that was supposed to open in 2023 has not begun.

There is still no sign of a new nursing home that was supposed to open in Akureyri two years ago. The municipal council is calling on the new government to get started, because the waiting lists for the elderly in North Iceland are getting longer. In the spring of 2020, Ásthildur Sturludóttir, mayor of Akureyri, and the then Minister of Health Svandís Svavarsdóttir signed an agreement to build a new nursing home in Akureyri. A home for eighty pe…