The midwives of the Rive Gauche clinic in Toulouse maintain their strike

The protest movement continues at the maternity unit of the Rive Gauche clinic.Since Wednesday morning, the midwives of the establishment have been on strike to ask for employee revaluations.In their absence, the clinic has closed its obstetric blocks and is no longer able to ensure childbirth.A dozen transfers to other hospitals and clinics have therefore taken place since Wednesday, in connection with the SAMU 31 and the Center hospitalier universitaire (CHU) in Toulouse and in coordination with the Regional Health Agency (ARS Occitanie).

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"A device has been put in place at three levels: the left bank clinic maintains consultations, an obstetrician gynecologist from the clinic is on penalty to reinforce the CHU teams if necessary (at least it makes the link by phone onThe Parturientes file) and finally, Center 15 (Samu 31) takes care of regulation when there are transfers. We are every day in connection with other peripheral maternities to find out the available places. All actors playThe game with significant solidarity to maintain continuity of care and care in complete safety, "explains Thierry Cardouat, departmental Haute-Garonne director of ARS Occitanie.This device is maintained until further notice, probably all weekend.

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"We left the meeting"

Because, 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 meeting is scheduled for the moment, no proposal has been made to us, we are continuing our movement," summarizes this Friday, January 14A strike midwife.

Contacted, the management of the Rive Gauche clinic did not wish to say more than official information, hoping to get out of the conflict quickly."The obstetrical block 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 epidemic of COVID-19," said Olivier Geoffroy, the director ofThe left bank clinic.The latter specifies: "Information on social networks worked well, future mothers are warned".

This Friday, the maternity hospital of the Paule-de-Viguier Hospital (CHU de Toulouse) thus welcomed four parturients."We were lucky, the day was calmer than usual so we were able to absorb these patients without difficulty," says Dr. Paul Guerby, head of the Maternity Paule-de-Viguier.The hospital teams, already very solicited and weakened by the epidemic of Cavid-19, remain worried about this additional activity, especially since it concerns the second maternity of the department (left bank ensures 3800 deliveries per year, Paule-De-viguier 5000).