Campaigners are pushing the Scottish Authorities for an unbiased overview into maternity providers within the west of the area.
The testimony of 1 Galloway mum left these collaborating in a gathering with Girls’s Well being Minister Maree Todd “wiping away tears” on Friday.
She held talks with members of the Galloway Group Hospital Motion Group and native politicians to debate the birthing suite at Stranraer’s hospital.
The unit has been closed since 2018 on account of a staffing scarcity, leading to conditions the place girls have given start in lay-bys on the A75 whereas on their method to Dumfries Infirmary.
Following the assembly a spokeswoman for the marketing campaign group mentioned: “We ask that the federal government conducts or instructs an unbiased overview of Wigtownshire maternity providers immediately.
“This might carry fairness for Wigtownshire sufferers in parallel with the critiques promised to sufferers in Moray and Caithness.
“They group additionally seeks an unbiased threat evaluation for a lady in labour travelling 75 miles in a automobile from Stranraer to Dumfries to offer start.”
Friday’s assembly heard from Glenluce mum Claire Fleming who has had 4 pregnancies – one among which was a stillbirth when she needed to journey to Dumfries to ship the stillborn child.
Claire has additionally miscarried thrice and needed to journey to Dumfries every time.
The spokeswoman added: “Everybody current on the assembly needed to wipe away tears after listening to Claire’s story.”
South Scotland MSP Colin Smyth, Galloway and West Dumfries MSP Finlay Carson, Councillor Jackie McCamon and a consultant of MSP Emma Harper additionally took half within the assembly.
Mr Carson mentioned: “I used to be heartened to listen to from the minister herself that she totally understood the difficulties going through pregnant girls dwelling in each distant and rural areas.
“I welcome that in her opinion a neighborhood maternity unit – a midwife led maternity unit – must be the usual to realize in Stranraer. That's definitely one thing I and lots of others have been campaigning to see occur as shortly as attainable.
“Whereas I perceive that Ms Todd could want to wait till the native well being board produces their overview on maternity providers throughout the area, the report should be clear and never be written to ship a suggestion which many suspect would cement NHS Dumfries and Galloway’s present most popular place, that Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary to be the one maternity unit within the area.”
Mr Smyth added: “There must be a really clear dedication that the purpose from each the well being board and the Scottish Authorities is to reopen the Clenoch Birthing Centre on the Galloway Hospital and a concerted effort made to recruit the midwives to make sure that can occur.”
A Scottish Authorities spokeswoman mentioned:“NHS Dumfries and Galloway is enterprise work regionally to contemplate the scenario and discover attainable choices for the service and they're main on offering the response to the mixing joint board.
A spokesman for NHS Dumfries and Galloway mentioned it plans to carry an extra assembly with the motion group on the matter after it was raised at a full council assembly.