By chronic subferential failure to succeed in recruiting, the hospital center of the Nièvre Prefecture saw its 14 midwives leave in sick leave. The profession is alarmed with a shortage of staff at the national level.
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The situation is unpublished. Since Monday, April 11, the maternity of the hospital center of the agglomeration of Nevers (Chan) is closed. The fourteen midwives of the service are in sick leave and the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Burgundy-Franche-Comté had to appeal to the sanitary reserve.
At present, only emergencies are supported. “We are still able to welcome women about to give birth, reassures Victoria Simonetta, in charge of the communication of the CHAN. When the work is not at an advanced stage, patients are transferred to a surrounding motherhood . “The motherhood of Nevers is the only of the department of Nièvre, after many closures these last fifteen years. Between Monday and Wednesday, fifteen women to give birth had been transferred to the maternities of Moulins, Montluçon, Bourges, Auxerre or Dijon, the nearest being about an hour of Nevers.
Guillaume Rameau is one of the team members arrested since Monday. He tells you have arrived “end” physically. “It’s been alerting the situation,” he says. Since September, we had a dozen departures on twenty-four midwives. “For him, the” drop of too much “falls early April When the management announces that the service will now work with two midwives. Initially, maternity, which produces more than 1,100 deliveries a year, turned five during the day. A ratio that was reduced to four in January, then three, and finally two lately. “In birth rooms, we can have up to six patients a day. Add to that the birth suites, emergency consultations. Two midwives to handle all this? It’s an untenable rhythm that does not guarantee the Safety of women “, explains the Maïutician.
According to the direction, the vast majority of sick leave has been filed on Monday, April 11th. Before cracking, Guillaume Rameau tells having spent the weekend preceding his stopping between the birth rooms: “I said to the patients,” I come back in ten minutes “and I came back for an hour thirty later. We are forced to spend a lot less time with women. “David Boucher, secretary of the CFDT section of the Chan insists:” It’s not a strike. It’s not a whim. Monday morning, caregivers could not Simply more. Many are medicated. “
Attractiveness crisis
“Some midwives have chained guards thirteen hours, working on weekends, at night, tells the union representative. They held nine months with a third less colleagues. There, it broke. “He also emphasizes the psychological pressure that the employees experienced:” They constantly work with a sword of Damocles on the head. The lives of women and children is endangered. And if there is anything , it is the midwives who will remain guilty. “
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