During the legislative elections of June, the Council of the Order of Midwives of Paris, which has a thousand three hundred midwives, that is the largest contingent in France, wants to challenge future deputies on their Concrete proposals and on the policy they intend to implement to compensate for the dramatic shortage of midwives in France, particularly in Parisian maternities.
Indeed, and after having questioned the midwives, the maternities where they exercise bring us back figures in May going up to thirteen vacant periods of midwives for certain establishments, that is to say about sixty-seven midwives For the sixteen, soon to be fifteen public or private Parisian maternities with, moreover, figures far below reality, because not including absences linked to sick leave or maternity.
Just in Paris, the number of midwives missing at the call is the equivalent, in number of positions, at the closure of one of the largest maternities in the capital. And the figures for this summer will be worse, with the non-replacement of the annual leave.
The midwives leave the profession and convert, due to increasingly degraded working conditions which do not allow them to carry out the missions for which they have committed, and a recognition and a Salary very below their responsibilities, not to mention the implementation of the sixth year of study.
a almost structural shortage
The situation experiences a dramatically exponential degradation, but is not new. For several years, perinatality and the gynecological sphere have been under tension, and the shortage of midwives has become almost structural.
Indeed, for example, a night sector with more than fifty hospital beds currently works without midwife, consultation and ultrasound services practiced by midwives have sometimes been closed for several months, the Preparation sessions for birth and parenting are almost no longer insured in maternities, and the liberal sector, hospitalization at home, maternal and child protection centers and family schedules are strongly impacted.
But, in addition to midwives who, like all caregivers, come out exhausted from the health crisis, and whose profession is going through an unprecedented crisis, the first victims of this deficit in midwives, they are, obviously, women themselves.
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