Another Mississippi hospital will stop delivering babies, citing obstetrician shortage

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/another-mississippi-hospital-stop-delivering-170716347.html

A hospital on the Mississippi Gulf Coast will suspend labor and delivery services April 1 because of a shortage of obstetricians, further decreasing health care access in a state that has seen other hospitals shut down birthing centers or intensive care for newborn babies.

Singing River Gulfport said in its announcement Thursday that hospital leaders hope the suspension of services will be temporary, WXXV-TV reported.

The move follows an announcement from a New Orleans-based health care system last May that it would stop delivering babies at a hospital it operates on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Ochsner Health System cited a relatively low number of births and the departure of the obstetrician who had delivered babies at Ochsner Medical Center-Hancock in Bay St. Louis.

[Solly Mack]

1. Mississippi, goddamn.

[Hekate]

2. Exactly

Also: Die, women, our brood mares are worth more than you.

[roamer65]

3. Let the exodus begin!

The doctors can make more money in the wealthier blue states and have a lot less hassle.

[SunSeeker]

4. Exactly. There's a shitload of ob/gyns here in Southern California. nt

[nolabear]

5. Damn. I know that place. This is really terrible.

There will be deaths unless the void gets filled. There are other hospitals but I fear the exodus of capable doctors.

I imagine they’re feeling under threat of being prosecuted for providing necessary care. Those poor people. They’re being harmed so badly by those the rwnjs have put in charge.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Considering the legal threats they could face, who can blame them??

And in certain states, there's also a shortage of qualified teachers since they're under threat, too.

[Irish_Dem]

8. This is the goal. To get professionals to leave their jobs.

Heath care providers, teachers, librarians, public health workers, election workers, etc etc.

Who benefits from the destruction of the professional workforce?

[Freethinker65]

7. Perhaps they can just have their deliveries at Walgreens.

[lindysalsagal]

9. Why not just le gawd do all the "creatin'?

We don't need no stinkin' doctors.