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Childbirths are "suspended" from November 15 at the maternity hospital in Dinan (Côtes-d'Armor) due to a shortage of gynecologists and obstetricians, according to the Rance-Emeraude hospital group.
"Given the absence of structural applications from gynecologists - obstetricians at the Dinan hospital on October 15, 2020, (...) deliveries will therefore be suspended (...) from November 15, 2020".
The hospital group “is now proceeding with the establishment of the Rance-Emeraude territorial maternity”, indicates the press release from the hospital structure which brings together Dinan (Côtes-d'Armor), Saint-Malo and Cancale, in Ille-et- Ugly.
Direction Saint-Malo or Rennes
Concretely, the women of the region of Dinan will now have to go to give birth in Saint-Malo, around thirty kilometers away, or in Saint-Brieuc or Rennes, around sixty kilometers away.
“From the beginning of November, the precise modalities and associated health protocols for the establishment of the Center-Périnatal-de-Proximity (CPP) and the Center for Children, Adolescents and the Family (CEDAF) of the CH of Dinan ”, specifies the text.
"This project, financed by the ARS, completes the offer of care in the Dinan region", adds the press release.
814 maternities in 1996, 498 twenty years later
From a union source, it is indicated that around 650 births took place in Dinan in 2018, a maternity hospital threatened for several years and where deliveries had already been suspended due to the lack of anesthetists.
According to a study by the DREES (statistical service of social ministries), the number of maternity hospitals rose from 814 in 1996 to 498 in 2016 in metropolitan France.
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