Rosalind Wong, 39, wants to give birth to his second child in a birth house. She will not be able to do it in her city, since no midwife service is offered in Laval, which has 460,000 inhabitants.
“It is the third largest city in Quebec. It’s still absurd, ”says Rosalind Wong.
The Laval mother is waiting for her baby for the end of October. She was able to obtain follow -up in a birth house located in the north of Montreal, as in her first pregnancy, when she lived in the metropolis. Her spouse and she consider herself lucky.
Photo Marco Campanozzi, the presses
Rosalind Wong will give birth to his second child in October.
“It’s still a pocket – we will say it like that – to have to depend on luck to have a service that should be a local service, which is quite essential and which is blocked for reasons still obscure,” adds François Dionne, the spouse of Mme Wong, who is a family doctor.
More and more voices are raised in Laval so that a birth house is established there. The Better-Naster organization in Laval recently launched a citizen mobilization campaign. Mayor Stéphane Boyer gave his support.
We are the only big city in Quebec not to have a birth house.
Stéphane Boyer, mayor of Laval.
The Director General to better party in Laval, Lysane Grégoire, a “surprising and deplorable” judge that there is still no birth house in the city, while the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) provided for one in her plans as early as March 2015.
“There are 4000 births per year in Laval,” she argues.
Resistance of certain doctors
Lysane Grégoire argues that the birth house project in Laval does not lead because of the resistance of doctors of the Cité-de-la-Santé which rather demand the enlargement of the unity of the births of the hospital.
His organization, she specifies, is “fully agree” with the expansion of this unit, but believes that the two projects must not compete.
“No, there is no resistance from the doctors to the birth house project,” retorts the Cisss de Laval, in an email. The two projects, it is added, are “complementary” and not “in competition”.
Photo Hugo-Sébastien Aubert, the press archives
The Cité-de-la-Santé Hospital, in Laval
The health facility indicates that he submitted in 2020 a project to deploy midwives and a birth house at the MSSS.
“Since then, the Cisss de Laval has revived the MSSS each year,” it is written. Better in Laval is aware of these follow-ups. We are awaiting a positive return from the MSSS. »»
In the ministry, it is said that “the lack of workforce available and the increase in costs related to immobilization slows down the deployment of new birth houses and midwife”.
“Health Quebec is to be reviewed all the services deployed through the network and the choices will be made to continue to promote interprofessional collaborations and innovative models, where needs are the most glaring,” it is said in an email.
In the shadow of Montreal
Better born in Laval militates so that the future birth house will find itself under the same roof than other resources intended for future and new parents. The organization is working, with fifteen partners, on the project together to welcome life (envy). The Center for Social Pediatrics of Laval, the City of Laval and the Cisss de Laval participate in the “work unit”, which met for the first time in June 2022.
Can we sit together and reshuffle the 2020 project to integrate it into the Envie and Substitute something extremely interesting for the Ministry and Health Quebec?
Lysane Grégoire, Director General to better come to Laval
The mayor of Laval, Stéphane Boyer, hopes that “the government can find a way of moving forward with the” birth house “project, without forgetting the other needs of Cité-de-la-Santé, including the enlargement of the birth of births.
Mr. Boyer deplores that the neighboring cities of Montreal, like his, benefit from “much less investment” from the Quebec government. He wants “it to change”.
“Right now, the third largest city in Quebec, we have a single overflowing hospital, a single Cégep that overflows, a single refuge for overtaking itinerant,” he argues. The needs are still large and I think they have to be met. »»
Corrigendum
In a previous version, an error in the layout of this text falsely attributed a quote from the mayor of Laval Stéphane Boyer to the Dr François Dionne.
