About thirty midwives have gathered this Tuesday at the doors of the José Molina Orosa Hospital to demand labor and salary improvements.
The demonstration took place at 11:00 AM and the attendees carried signs on which demands such as "Irreplaceable in Healthcare, invisible on payroll" could be read.
And as La Voz reported this Monday, the midwives denounce that the ratio of these specialists in the Canary Islands is very low, assuring that there is at least only one midwife per health center "for everything that the Basic Zone (municipality) encompasses." "This is leading to precariousness in all health from birth," states Yasmina Martín, midwife and spokesperson for the Canary Association of Midwives (ACAMAT).
It should be remembered that the midwife not only accompanies the woman and the baby during childbirth, but also does so during the rest of the stages she goes through for the rest of her life until old age, such as, for example, during menopause.
In this regard, he criticizes that "nurses work in the wards when those positions could be used for midwives".
This demonstration has also been carried out to request salary improvements, as they denounce that the difference with other autonomous communities is notable. "There is an abysmal difference in working as a midwife in the Canary Islands compared to working in the Basque Country, it's a 600 euro difference in a monthly salary," assures the spokesperson.
The College of Nursing of Las Palmas explained this Monday that to approach the average European rate of midwives per 100,000 women of childbearing age, the Canary Islands Health Service would need to have 300 more midwives in the eastern province.
