the situation at the Lille University Hospital maternity ward is “shocking”, according to a doctor from the Inter-Hôpitaux collective

“When it happened in small maternity wards, it went unnoticed, now it’s shocking”estimated Friday January 12 on franceinfo Jean-Luc Jouve, pediatric surgeon, president of the medical commission establishing the AP-HM in Marseille and member of the Inter-Hôpitaux collective, while the largest French maternity ward, the maternity hospital of Lille University Hospital, transfers its patients and their babies to other hospitals in the region or in Belgium due to the lack of doctors.

“There, it goes less unnoticed and it shocks”underlined the doctor, who explains that “yet it’s our daily life”. “We are on a tightrope all the time. We have no room for maneuver.”

“We are incomprehensible”

“The hospital situation only continues to get worse”, he continued. Asked to react to the appointment of Catherine Vautrin as Minister of Labor and Health, Jean-Luc Jouve wonders “if the captain who is going to be at the helm of this enormous ship is up to the enormous task that lies ahead”.

“We have difficulty understanding a strategy of putting in place a person who is at a distance from these subjects. We are incomprehensible, we in hospitals, when we see the casting that is offered to us”he finished.