Midwives at the Rive Gauche clinic in Toulouse maintain their strike
In Toulouse, the strike movement of midwives at the Rive Gauche clinic continues. Blocks for childbirth remain closed. Parturients are transferred to other structures.
The protest movement continues in the maternity ward of the Rive Gauche clinic. Since Wednesday morning, the establishment’s midwives have been on strike for the demand for salary increases. In their absence, the clinic closed its obstetric units and was no longer able to provide deliveries. Around ten transfers to other hospitals and clinics have therefore taken place since Wednesday, in conjunction with Samu 31 and the Toulouse University Hospital Center (CHU) and in coordination with the Regional Health Agency (ARS Occitanie).
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“A system has been set up at three levels: the Rive Gauche clinic for consultations, an obstetrician gynecologist from the clinic is on call to go and strengthen the CHU teams if necessary (at least he makes the link by telephone on the parturient files) and finally, the center 15 (Samu 31) is responsible for the regulation when there are transfers. We are every day in contact with the other peripheral maternity hospitals to know the available places. maintain continuity of care and safe care”, explains Thierry Cardouat, Haute-Garonne departmental director of ARS Occitanie. This device is up to this order, probably all weekend.
“We left the meeting”
Car, on the side of the strikers, the time is not for appeasement. “We met the management of the clinic on Thursday and we left the room. No other appointment is scheduled for the moment, no proposal has been made to us, we are continuing our movement”, summarizes this Friday, January 14 a striking midwife.
Contacted, the management of the Rive Gauche clinic did not wish to say more than the official information, hoping to quickly resolve the conflict. “The obstetrical unit remains closed until further notice. A partnership with the Toulouse University Hospital is in place. Territorial solidarity is very strong and remarkable in this period of the Covid-19 epidemic”, declares Olivier Geoffroy, the director of the Rive Gauche clinic. The latter specifies: “The information on social networks has worked well, expectant mothers are warned”.
This Friday, the maternity ward of the Paule-de-Viguier hospital (Toulouse University Hospital) thus welcomed four parturients. “We were lucky, the day was calmer than usual so we were able to absorb these patients without difficulty”, assures Dr Paul Guerby, head of the Paule-de-Viguier maternity unit. The hospital teams, already very strained and weakened by the Covid-19 epidemic, remain worried about this increased activity, especially since it concerns the second maternity hospital in the department (Rive Gauche provides 3,800 deliveries per year, Paule- de-Viguier 5000).