According to the Save the Sarlat Hospital collective, which announced this mobilization, the project in question would reduce the local maternity service to “a mobile team […]without a doctor, made up of midwives and childcare assistants”, providing post-delivery monitoring at home. This team would only operate “Monday to Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.”.
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Maternity in danger: in Sarlat, the fear of the obstetric desert
The health system in rural areas was already very fragile. But the implementation, at the beginning of April, of the Rist law, aiming among other things to better regulate the remuneration of temporary doctors, created a wave of panic in the public hospital. In Sarlat, the shadow hangs over the maternity ward, which was unable to provide any births for a month
This new service would sound the death knell for the Sarladaise maternity ward. “Moms will be forced to give birth elsewhere,” add the members of Save the Sarlat Hospital, denouncing “a sneaky policy of permanently closing the technical platform” and evoking the future risks for future mothers and their babies “in the event of life-threatening emergency”.
