New midwives strike: still no childbirth at the Rive Gauche maternity in Toulouse
The midwives of the Rive Gauche clinic in Toulouse were put on a surprise strike on Wednesday morning. Deliveries cannot currently take place in this maternity hospital. Parturients are referred to other establishments already in high demand and subject to the white plan due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
To voice their anger and their demands, the midwives of the Rive Gauche clinic in Toulouse chose the weapon of the surprise strike on Wednesday morning. In the absence of the majority of these professionals, the maternity unit is no longer able to provide deliveries. Parturients are referred to other structures through center 15 (Samu 31).
“We must make our profession attractive”
“We are not heard when we go to work with an armband on strike, we no longer have the choice to make our management react. There have been many announcement effects with the upgradings granted by the Ségur de la santé et transposed in the private sector but we still want an overall revaluation of our salaries because a bonus does not represent anything lasting. As for the salary gap between the public and the private sector, it is also important. With 15 years of seniority, in Toulouse, the difference can reach 500 to 700 euros, for the same work and the same diploma “, summarizes a midwife on strike. She pleads for a revaluation of the coefficient of midwives on the salary scale. “We have a wonderful working environment, a top medical team, but we are short of midwives and others, exhausted, are going to leave. Why? Because our salaries are among the least attractive.”
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Last fall, the Rive Gauche maternity hospital was closed for five days due to the strike of midwives whose movement is national. The public prosecutor had been seized for non-response to the prefect’s requisitions. The strike notice runs until January 20, 2022. The maternity hospital of the Rive Gauche clinic, with 3,800 deliveries per year, is the first maternity hospital in the private sector in the Toulouse metropolitan area.
A movement that goes badly in the hospital
If the demands of midwives (salary, upgrading of status, hiring) do not lend themselves to discussion and have been beneficial, since the departure, the support of doctors with them have been reported, the surprise movement of this Wednesday was bad to pass. Both in the ranks of the Rive Gauche medical teams and in the Toulouse University Hospital Center (CHU), which must absorb additional activity in an already tense context. “We are adapting urgently, as we did two months ago, but the problem is that we no longer have the strength to do so. The caregivers were in great demand in Toussaint, during the holidays. Christmas. We are still on a white plan, everyone is exhausted, we do not have the resources to open additional beds. Even if the demands of the midwives are legitimate, this strike, at the height of the epidemic, is really falling. mal ”, underlines Dr. Paul Guerby, obstetrician gynecologist, head of the Paule-de-Viguier maternity unit (Toulouse University Hospital) which has 5 doctors absent for Covid as well as a dozen midwives and as many nursing assistants and childcare auxiliaries for the same reason.
“Everyone is making an effort at the hospital, we asked our overwork staff at Christmas to open additional resuscitation beds, for the Covid but also other pathologies … And there we have to manage the strike of It is a monstrous and scandalous overload, but as always the public service will respond present “, launches Professor Vincent Minville, head of the anesthesia-intensive care unit of the Toulouse University Hospital.
Parturients transferred, gynecologists from Rive Gauche on call for the CHU
The departmental director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS Occitanie), Thierry Cardouat, received the striking midwives on Wednesday evening before meeting the management and medical teams of the Rive Gauche clinic this Thursday, January 13, in connection with the Toulouse University Hospital. An organization has been put in place “to ensure patient safety and continuity of care”. “Reception and consultation by gynecologists have been maintained at the Rive Gauche clinic. When there is a need to transfer parturients, this is regulated by the Samu. From Thursday evening, the maternity ward of the hospital Paule -de-Viguier (Toulouse University Hospital) will benefit from a medical on-call from the obstetrician gynecologists of the Rive Gauche clinic. They will be called in if necessary to come in reinforcement “, detail Thierry Cardouat. This collaboration of the private for the public would be a first.