A involved councillor is demanding a reinstatement of maternity providers within the west of the area to stop moms giving delivery en path to hospital.
Jackie McCamon raised her issues over the protection of ladies and unborn infants at Tuesday’s full council assembly.
The transfer was prompted by a number of instances the place ladies from Wigtownshire have given delivery in automobiles and ambulances earlier than making it to the maternity unit at Dumfries Infirmary.
Mid Galloway and Wigtown West Councillor McCamon stated: “Mums inform me they'll’t face the nervousness of going by one other being pregnant with the considered such an unsure drive to hospital.
“First time mums are uncertain of signs, wait too lengthy and haven't any alternative however to present delivery at residence or by the roadside as a result of the hospital is simply too far.”
She stated she had no criticism of the employees at Galloway Group Hospital in Stranraer who “go above and past to supply a service”.
However she added: “May you think about having to journey from Dumfries to Glasgow to present delivery as a result of it's the similar distance?”
Councillor McCamon tabled a movement calling for all choices to be explored to have infants delivered at Galloway Group Hospital in Stranraer once more, together with consultant-led providers.
It learn: “Galloway Group Hospital Motion Group (GCHAG) has campaigned for the Galloway Group Hospital for use to its most potential.
“Throughout their marketing campaign, the GCHAG has found that since 2018 there has solely been one deliberate delivery at Galloway Group Hospital’s maternity unit. All different births over this era have been in Dumfries.”
The assembly additionally heard from Julie White, chief working officer of NHS Dumfries and Galloway and chief officer of the area’s well being and social care partnership.
She stated it was determined in 2018 to not use the maternity unit “in response to a big staffing disaster” which had continued regardless of efforts to recruit midwives.
Consequently, the “least dangerous possibility is to ask ladies to entry the maternity unit in Dumfries”.
Members backed Councillor McCamon’s movement that the built-in joint board receives a report on maternity providers in Wigtownshire that additionally seems to be on the choices for the longer term and transport points. The Tory councillor can be attributable to increase the problem with Scotland’s Public Well being Minister Maree Todd.