Women and babies could die due to midwife cuts at Sydney’s RPA hospital, staff warn | Health

In one of Sydney’s largest hospitals, midwives warned that the number of midwives deployed during the birth and delivery unit of women and infants can die in the light of the interruptions.

Hospital staff, as of Tuesday, the midwifery group application (MGP), including five of the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital in Camperdown (RPA) Hospital, women and baby service, 20 full -time equivalent roles have been removed, he says.

The New Southern Wales Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA), although no job will be lost, the empty positions that are currently announced will no longer be filled and less ordinary staff will be brought, he said.

Changes will mean that less midwives will be produced in every shift in the Labor Party and the Birth Center to help mothers who give birth in RPA.

“Currently in the birth unit, eight midwives per one -day shift, 10 midwives in the afternoon and eight at night [shift]”NSWNMA President O’Bray Smith said,“ With new changes, you will have six midwives [on each of the three shifts]. This is not safe. “

The Union said that nine beds in the birth ward would be cut and Smith said it would mean that it would be “women will be pushed faster than they are already.

Speaking at a rally outside the RPA on Tuesday, Smith said that the reduction of the number of midwives helping women during birth will not take one -on -one care during active labor and will not take any care during birth.

“Midwives are already at the point of breaking, Smith said, Smith said. “They know that women do not take the care they deserve in NSW. This will really make things worse. Every shift, a mother or baby may die as a result of the lack of sufficient personnel. This is about saving life, having safe personnel. Midwives are absolutely afraid of what can happen here.”

Jessica Rendell, a midwife in RPA since 2021, was a slap on her face ”.

“Being so limited is really insecure [number of] Midwives, ”he said to Guardian as a member of Australia in his capacity as an NSWNMA member. It is not like sitting without doing anything. Every day we run away from our feet.

“If you ask any of the girls working today, did they take a break? Are they ate?

Rendell said that he knew a series of midwives who want to leave a position in NSW Health for the works in other states where the wage is higher and the personnel-patient rates are better.

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said to journalists on Tuesday: “I want to make it clear, no one in the RPA loses their jobs.” Midwives, “RPA’da birth rates” due to a slight reduction “because of the” birth services in other parts of other parts, “he said.

Park added that the state government used a model called Birth Organ plus to determine the level of personnel in birth and birth services, a model that the state government has been approved by NSWNMA.

The Union previously approved the plus model of the birth body, but it was called for a few years to examine and apply 1: 3 personnel ratio.

NSWNMA has caused concerns about the decrease in the number of midwives to work in the MGP program, allowing a woman to see the same midwife during her pregnancy during her pregnancy.

The Union suggested that a great demand for service and the last NSW birth trauma investigation suggested that the NSW government’s maintenance models, including the midwifery group application, and expand the continuity of midwifery ”.

Aborigin MGP, a special program, will be combined with the general MGP program, a special program to help domestic women to give birth culturally safely and improve the results for local women and babies.

Two -dedicated Aboriginal MGP midwives say that they are asked to take extra patients from the general service and they are waiting for their focus from indigenous women.

Paige Austin, one of the MGP midwives of Aboriginal, said, “It was integrated. It is no longer a protected domestic area,” he said. “These women lose us and lose our time and everything we give them extra on MGP.”

The news about personnel changes were shared in the group of mothers where Charlotte Wesley and Bridget Dominic were part of Dominic, and both appeared in the rain on Tuesday to support RPA midwives that helped them surrender only three months ago.

“Midwives came for us, so we really want to appear for them,” Dominic said.

“I think these interruptions can lead to the deaths of mothers and babies. But more than that, we should not only target live mothers and babies; we want happy and healthy [mothers and] Babies contributing to happy healthy communities. “

For a comment, RPA was contacted.