the fight midwives for the upgrading of their status and the improvement of their working conditions is growing in Toulouse, where childbirth blocks are closing one after the other. While the maternity ward of the Rive Gauche clinic has been closed since Saturday, that of the clinic
Southern Cross joined the movement on Wednesday.
Welcoming parturients in the Toulouse region is a puzzle for the regional health agency (ARS). The latter renews its instruction to future mothers not to go directly to the establishments concerned, and to dial 15 to be redirected where places are available.
The public authorities are toughening up their tone
After having mobilized the non-striking maternities in Toulouse, the health authorities must now appeal to other maternities in the region, while deploring “the inconvenience for the families concerned who could face greater geographical distance during these births ”.
Without getting involved in the demands and negotiations underway in private establishments, the prefecture and the ARS “urge all the health professionals concerned to respect the prefectural requisitions, to avoid any interruption in the care of births, young people. mothers and newborns and the consequences likely to follow ”. In the case of the Left Bank clinic, a report has already been made to the public prosecutor.