🗣️ Swedish Health Minister Collapses On Live TV During Her First Day

Sweden's new Health Minister, Elisabet Lann, collapsed on her first day of work while being introduced at a press conference.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, we talked the other day about hard first days
at work. When we saw a girl who's working in
the bar and she was asked to get a bucket
of beers and she actually was pouring the beers into
a giant bucket. But what about the Swedish health minister.
This was her first day and as part of her
first day doing a press conference. Well, he lets the

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news story tell it.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
A media conference in Sweden was brought to a dramatic
holt after their newly appointed health minister collapsed. Elizabeth Lahn
was standing next to the country's prime minister and other
officials when she suddenly fell over and hit her head
has a clip forward one. Thankfully she did return a

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short time later with no apparent injuries, saying this is
what can happen when you have a blood sugar drop.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Was she done?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
He's the health minister. It a musally, Barva got.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
She didn't do the old school Oh my lord and
put her hand over her forehead and do.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
A delicate faint to the side.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
You did do the old time movie. Yeah, she did a.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Full on face plant, but over the front like she
had a perspect's lectern in front of her and just
collapsed on top of it and booked a head.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
It looked quite They're very sharp perspect.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Have you ever fainted. It's a terrible feeling.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I've been not unconscious a couple of times, but.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
With fainting, you kind of feel woozy and then suddenly
the ground literally. And that's what they all say, but
it's so true that it comes up to meet you
what I just said.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, but when does it happen to you?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I've had it a few times over the years when
I when I've got when I'm just feeling light headed
and unwell.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, or someone hunky walks into the room so I
come to work in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, I haven't heard that. I haven't heard that.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh my lord,