Future mothers who had planned to give birth at the Guingamp maternity hospital (Côtes-d’Armor) will have to change their plans. Because from April 26, the city’s hospital center will temporarily suspend activity. The Regional Health Agency (ARS) justifies this decision by “the recurring difficulties affecting medical and paramedical personnel” encountered by the Guingamp maternity hospital.
“More recently, strong tensions have arisen concerning the number of midwives, initially alleviated by territorial solidarity”, continues the ARS in a press release. But despite the help of neighboring hospitals, “the number of midwives remains incomplete to this day, as well as that of obstetrician-gynecologists and anesthetist doctors”, indicate the health authorities, stressing that “these difficulties now compromise the safety care “.
A maternity hospital regularly threatened with closure
This temporary suspension of childbirth does not mean “the closure of the Guingamp maternity hospital”. The ARS takes great care to provide this clarification because the subject is very sensitive in the region. Object of struggle, the Guingamp maternity hospital is indeed regularly threatened with closure.
The subject was even invited to the highest summit of the State recently. Taking advantage of the presence of Emmanuel Macron at his side during the semi-final of the Blues against Morocco during the last World Cup in Qatar, Noël Le Graët, former mayor of Guingamp, discussed with the President of the Republic the comes out of the Breton maternity hospital. Which still remains very uncertain to this day.