VIDEO. "Fed up with being wise": determined, midwives are in the streets

Speculum in hand, the midwives sing in chorus "A woman, a midwife!" ". They are several thousand from all over France to parade in the streets of Paris this Thursday, October 7, 2021 following a national appeal. "Great job, very shabby status", "It's not just the perineum that will crack". "Fed up with being wise". On the many signs held up, the expression of a deep discomfort. In front of the Ministry of Health, the atmosphere is a little less festive. The security barriers are shaken to make themselves heard. Blouses and specula discarded. Midwives are angry and they are letting it be known. Their main demands: the recognition of the medical status of the midwife and not paramedical as is the case today, more human resources, an increase in salaries.

"When we have 4 women to take care of at the same time under epidural, it is to endanger the life of the women", laments Séverine who came from Brittany to denounce her working conditions.

"In hospitals it is necessary that each time a woman gives birth, she has a midwife near her, and that the midwife is not shared between several women who are going to give birth", explains for her part Céline, who works in Les Lilas (93).

Find in video the demonstration of midwives in Paris.