Madrid (EFE).- The General Nursing Council (CGE) warns about the problems for reproductive and sexual health in childbearing age that can cause the “great shortage” of midwives in Spain, a profession with great inequality between communities.
This was stated this Wednesday in a press release by the Council, whose president, Florentino Pérez Raya, asks the Ministry of Health to urge the autonomous communities to convene more places for this specialty and the autonomous administrations to convene them.
For her part, the midwife of the CGE, Monserrat Angulo, has warned that the professionals are exhausted due to an overload of work during the pandemic and their positions cannot be covered by other professionals, while stressing that for their training these professionals they must study four years of degree and two of specialization in Obstetric-gynecological Nursing.
“It is essential to put on the table the number of midwives that there are currently, those who are going to retire and see how many women of childbearing age there are in order to calculate the deficit we have”, added the CGE member.
The latest citations published by the INE reflect, according to the CGE, an “enormous difference” between communities, with 59.49 midwives for every 100,000 women of childbearing age in Catalonia, compared to 123.75 in Navarra, figures that are far from the average for Spain (75.1).