Region | Will the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence soon be deprived of maternity wards?

2023-04-24 07:23:29

Maternities “not safe enough for mother and child”. This is the shock argument put forward by Professor Yves Ville, gynecologist-obstretician, in the report he submitted at the end of February to the Academy of Medicine. The head of the maternity ward at the Necker hospital in Paris points to 111 services in France which perform less than 1,000 deliveries per year, and in which the conditions are not, according to him, required to “ensure the safety and quality of care “. Among them, the two maternities of the department are concerned. Last year, 370 deliveries took place in Digne-les-Bains and 607 in Manosque. “At the time the threshold of 300 deliveries was applied, the Digne maternity hospital was already threatened because it was below.

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