The Collective of midwives on strike for 5 months considers that there is no longer a “responsible” interlocutor at the Ministry of Health. To obtain a “medical” status, they appeal to Jean-Marc Ayrault.
On Tuesday, March 4, the Minister of Health announced at a press conference “a great advance” for the profession of midwife with “the creation of a medical status of midwife in hospitals. “But for the Collective (1) on strike for five months now to obtain the status of hospital practitioner, what Marisol Touraine is proposing is not a status but a title,” a title that does not recognize midwives at all ” , specifies the last press release of this delegation. For this reason, these health professionals recall that for weeks the entire profession has not mobilized for a simple title but indeed for the status of medical professional, “alongside doctors, odontologists and pharmacists. Still angry, they decided on Monday to no longer refer to the Minister of Health to develop their profession. An additional stage of this mobilization which still affects 70% of maternity hospitals today.
The continuation of an “unlimited” strike voted in GA
In an open letter published on Tuesday, these women are therefore addressing the Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault directly. For them, “there is no longer a responsible interlocutor” Avenue de Ségur (Paris). “Your Minister of Health pretended to settle the inequity of the situation of midwives by a mock political decision, with an announcement effect, in a distressing communication operation. After several meetings of facades and other parodies of consultations, your Minister wanted to make believe that a decision had been taken. No one is fooled by these low maneuvers and midwives are still on strike throughout France, ”they write. A decision voted on March 7 in General Assemblies following the announcements of Marisol Touraine.
The threat of a health crisis?
Finally, the midwives of the collective deplore the fact that the Ministry of Health is subservient to “a small caste of doctors’ unions reigning supreme and dictating its policy. And as proof of the contempt they suffer, they mention several letters already addressed to the same Prime Minister which, according to them, have remained unanswered to this day. “Are you so little interested in women’s health and midwives in France? “
In conclusion, these women have chosen to challenge the Prime Minister on the possible risks to which such contempt can lead, “at what level of crisis will you finally decide to take up the matter? Mr. Prime Minister, do we need a health crisis for this government to worry about its citizens? Mr. Prime Minister, is fear the only way to alert you to public health issues? ”
With these last words, it is difficult to know today how the conflict could soon subside …
(1) ONSSF, CNSF, ANSFC, ANESF, CNEMa, CFTC social health
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