College of Midwives and Midwives Conducts a Warning Strike on the Comptroller's Opinion – National

This Thursday, the College of Midwives and Midwives of Chile carried out a national strike warning against the authorities, after a recent notice Office of the Controller establishes that nurses can attend Gynecology, Obstetrics and Neonatology. According to the school, this calls into question the so-called administrative standard n ° 21, which set the year 2010 for professionals who would be, exclusively, the technical and administrative heads of the units mentioned.

according to the replacement of an old opinion, the Controller gives the Ministry of Health 30 days to apply this new provision. Given this situation, the College of Midwives and Midwives began Thursday a day of mobilization that, according to the entity, warns, "could result in a strike scheduled for the next few days. "

"The current ministry, beyond seeing how we are going to advocate for the organization of badual and reproductive health in the country, is proposing a working table, with quite plausible topics, but we believe that "Today is not the minute, when now the point is political," says Anita Román, National President of the College of Midwives and Matrons.

According to Cooperative a little more than 11 thousand professionals and about five thousand students from the obstetrical careers were mobilized for what they consider "a blow to the public health" of the country.

In parallel, Roman President pointed out that "should not come and work where there are newborns with pathologies, and much less in reproductive health or badual health, such as the areas of gynecology. " The leader also called to consider that nurses only have a semester of gynecology and obstetrics studies at the university.

The government's response came from the deputy secretary support networks, Gloria Burgos who He argued that "each of the types of clinical professional training we have in Chile, each is necessary and so what we must do is to order the skills that are specific to each of them and which are the tasks that are common. "

" There is no doctor or most specialized physician ] nor the paramedical technician who helps us to mobilize patients that approximately in the health team, "he added.

The certain fact is that the next 12th of July will be defined the possible new attributions the Nursing Professionals