At Bayeux hospital, caregivers came to observe the shooting on Tuesday, December 14. Starring, actress Romane Bohringer. For the city’s maternity hospital, the event is important. In France, 2/3 of maternity hospitals have closed in forty years. Among the most concerned, those of level 1, including Bayeux. Norman director Julie Lerat-Gersant has therefore decided to highlight them:
“I myself have worked in maternity centers and I am very sensitive to the closure of small maternity hospitals. Midwives study for five years, but remain underpaid” before continuing, “It’s a film that defends public institutions, I am keen to show that social workers do a wonderful job under deplorable salary conditions.”
A committed feature film, which traces the history of Camille, 16, pregnant and placed in a maternal center who befriends Nadine (played by Romane Bohringer), educator. The script shocked the actress:
“Upon reading the script, I was very, very moved, in tears, upset, I wanted to follow Julie from the first lines of her writing and to embrace her project”, says Romane Bohringer.
Threatened level 1 maternities
_ “There are several maternities in Manche and Calvados which have closed. We would absolutely like to avoid that, level 1 maternities were built to be as close as possible to patients”, explains Dr. Lenka Gala Dizay, head of the Bayeux maternity hospital. A sad reality, when we know that the number of women who live more than 45 minutes from a maternity hospital has doubled in 20 years.
If the obstetrics situation in Bayeux remains rather good, the mayor, Patrick Gomont regrets the closures of maternity hospitals in neighboring municipalities:
“It’s always dramatic, the closures are based on the number of births. In Bayeux, we are flirting with the threshold, I would say that things are going quite well. A motherhood is also a factor of attractiveness in a territory . I stand in solidarity with my elected colleagues who saw them close to them. “
For the nurses of the maternity ward, the arrival of the film crew is therefore an opportunity to talk about the fate of these hospitals. Director Julie Lerat-Gersant hopes that this will appeal to viewers of the film.