It has been three years since the maternity des Lilas, including local start dusting
obsolescence, strives to be rebuilt in Lilac. It is offering new and expectant parents
respectful accompaniment of the body and the willingness of women. Collective manifest the
Champs-Elys?es on 25 January. ---- It was a promise of Holland during his campaign:
Maternity Lilac is rebuilt on a new site within the city. But government programs, "it
promises drunks" project today is to outsource motherhood Montreuil, on the premises of
another hospital ... Which are small, inadequate and just as antiquated as the current
premises. Several issues make this betrayal a heavy blow in an area where public health is
already struggling. ---- Already, any relocation will be accompanied by a social magnitude
that everyone still unknown. 150 employee-es, we have no idea how many people could be
left in the lurch. The most precarious and least skilled jobs are the first to be deleted.
Beyond that, move the maternity Montreuil returns to delete a nearby structure which
provides a support for quality public who need it. And of course also involve the
relocation of the disappearance abortion center, in a department where the demand for this
type of medical procedure is high. Aux Lilas 1200 abortion is practiced by year and we put
into practice the slogan of the right of women to control their own bodies, what will he
do without this structure?
an act, a price
In general, Lilacs are a symbol of a way of working against the current modes of care and
the race to profitability. The government uses the argument of a structural deficit of
motherhood to justify its policy. This deficit is due to the fee for service medical
community: since 2010, every medical procedure now has a price. And it goes without saying
that abortion and childbirth related physiological little. However, the Lilac, it acts
intentionally priced practical minimum values ??because the human support and alternatives
to on-medical. To do this, motherhood is negative: it would do more cesareans, more
surgery, only to eliminate a deficit? It is out of question for all staff.
For over ten years everything was done by the association Birth (which manages motherhood)
to fill the absurd requirements of ARS: lean to a more medicalized maternity, increase the
number of anesthetists, fill quotas are imposed (including the annual number of births,
adjusted upwards each year). Despite the deaf ear of the ARS and the Department,
especially in spite of sickness and exhaustion, employee-es, far from giving up, adapt and
develop control strategies.
we are not tired es!
In a structure that does not initially has a highly developed trade union culture,
initiatives have flourished at the beginning of the fight. If the official group includes
politicians, trade unionists and the most qualified staff, all employee-es have developed
mainly full of tools and actions with a certain dose of humor and creativity.
There was a calendar, stickers, hype and false deliveries direct to the Ministry doing
their small effect. In July, several days camping in front of the minister were not enough
to be heard. In September, a group of employee-generated clip art by diverting public
song, with lyrics denouncing the hypocrisy of the left promises. And the fight does not
run out of steam: the call of the collective, the pavement rebattra on January 25 on the
Champs-Elys?es! Les Lilas, there is and will remain there!
Clems (AL Paris West)
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