The text of the regional health plan, which had caused great concern among the Porto-Vecchio maternity support group, has been modified. The announcement was made this Tuesday, September 19, after just over two hours of meeting between the group and the regional health directorate. “Don’t worry,” the members of the group are now waiting to know the amount of funding that will be granted to maternity. Then, the strike is suspended.
After alerting the Minister of the Interior during his trip to Ajaccio and after obtaining an appointment with the management of the Regional Health Agency, the members of the maternity and emergency support team at the Ospedale clinic feel relieved. To Marie-Françoise Papi, the modification of the text “is a good step forward.”
The director general of the ARS, Marie-Hélène Lecenne, indicates that she “recognized that there had been a misunderstanding” and that she “proposed a new writing that allows the group to be assured or reassured. and to all the agents in the area.” He also announces that a study will be launched “on the health of mothers and children, to see how to complement the local offer.”
What financing?
“The financing problem has yet to be resolved,” warns Marie-Françoise Papi, specifying that a A meeting must be held between the maternity department and the ARS.. A quote to which “the collective remains attentive, because it is the sinew of the war,” he continues, while warning about “the determination of the collective, willing to make itself heard until the presidency of the Republic” on the occasion of the taking of possession of Emmanuel Macron. next visit to Corsica.
The unions, which had already suspended their strike pending this Tuesday’s meeting, maintain this suspension until next Monday, September 25, pending responses on this financing issue.
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