the midwives of the Rive Gauche clinic still on strike, the ARS takes legal action
Following the strike movement of midwives at the Rive Gauche clinic which began on Saturday, October 30, the ARS chose to seize the public prosecutor. She considers that the prefect’s requisitions were not respected.
The midwives of the Rive Gauche clinic in Toulouse went on a surprise strike very followed this Saturday, October 30. This Tuesday, the ARS, the regional health agency, said in a statement that it had seized the public prosecutor because they would not have responded to the requisitions which force them to return to work.
“At the start of the week, the evolution of the situation does not allow us to have a prospect of a complete resumption of activity within this establishment, despite the mobilization and requisitions issued to ensure the continuity of charge of parturients by the prefect of Haute-Garonne, at the request of the ARS, mention the Regional Health Agency. The lack of response to these requisitions being constitutive of an offense, we were forced to seize the public prosecutor of Toulouse “.
Crisis unit
The ARS also mentions that it has set up a crisis unit in order to ensure, in conjunction with the various departmental and extra-departmental health actors, the continuity of care for parturients.
In response, the midwives we have asked say: “we remain united and move forward with one voice. We are upright in the face of justice and our rights. They try to intimidate us. The other clinics are mobilized behind us. We remain vigilantes for our patients. The sooner our demands are heard, the sooner we will resume the path of our passion “.
“Rights in the face of justice”
The midwives have an appointment this Tuesday evening with the management of their establishment. They decide at the end of the follow-up they give to the strike movement. The ARS asks future mothers of Haute-Garonne and the border departments not to go spontaneously to the Rive Gauche clinic. They must contact the 15. The regulation teams of the counselors to the maternity service of another establishment where they will be taken care of.
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