For several months, midwives have been mobilized in many maternity hospitals in France to demand better recognition of their status and their working conditions. A movement in which the midwives of private hospitalization participate, including those of the private hospital of Côtes-d’Armor (HPCA).
In a press release, transmitted this Friday, November 26, the latter recalled that the “duration of practice of maternity midwives is on average five years”. And that, in a letter addressed to the federation of private hospitalization, “92% of midwives in the private sector have decided to say stop”.
Salary revaluation
For the midwives of the HPCA, as for their colleagues in France, “the federation must respond effectively and urgently” to their demands. Namely, a “net increase in staff in private maternity hospitals” and recognition of their medical status by “a revaluation of salaries to the height of those affected by midwives in the public service”. The latter gaining, at the end of their career, “€ 1,700 more than those of private health establishments”.
“Midwives in the private sector can no longer be ignored,” the statement concludes. “If this call should remain without a satisfactory answer, new actions, like those carried out in Perpignan, Brest, Reims, Toulouse, Vannes or Amiens, are being considered”.
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