2023-12-16 10:18:09
With 16,000 fewer births in 2022 than in 2021 in France, maternity hospitals in Vaucluse are struggling. According to the latest Insee data from October 30, 2023, the number of births fell by 14% in the department.
Particularly at the Urban V polyclinic, which also has to deal with the shortage of doctors and pediatricians; a trend also observed nationally. “We have fallen below the threshold of 1,000 births“, explains Julien Coulon, the director of the polyclinic, which will barely reach 900 newborns at the end of 2023 compared to 1,200 three years ago.
As for the medical staff, which the private establishment is struggling to recruit, they must be replaced by temporary workers: there are four or five in pediatrics and
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