Are you familiar with the role of midwives? To publicize the wide range of missions performed by this profession, the Ministry of Health is launching a national information campaign. As of June 24, 24,000 posters and 483,000 leaflets addressing the missions of midwives will be made available in family planning, family planning and education centers (CPEF), maternities, local perinatal centers, maternal and child protection centers (PMI) …
To these brochures is added an Internet component: strong communication is planned on social networks as well as on generalist and women’s media sites where banners will refer to a special file on the website of the Ministry of Health.
Why this communication? This involves raising awareness of a profession whose skills are often poorly understood and go beyond simple monitoring of pregnancy and the practice of childbirth: monitoring of healthy women, possibility of prescription of contraception, vaccinations, intervention in the prevention of addictions … And that’s not all. Since a decree published on June 5 in the Official Journal, as part of the law to modernize the health system, midwives are now authorized to perform voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) drug and to vaccinate those around the mother and the newborn.
A hand extended to midwives
This media coverage of the profession serves as a helping hand to midwives who have been campaigning for years for recognition and enhancement of their profession. “A recognized, modernized, publicized midwifery profession is a more efficient health system and better protected French people. With this campaign, we are enabling each and everyone to better understand the richness and diversity of this profession “, declared Marisol Touraine on the occasion of the presentation of this campaign.
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