Question 14071 — children

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Ms. Marie-Agnès Poussier-Winsback draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the public health emergency concerning the fate of the 50,000 premature newborns each year in France. Prematurity is currently the leading cause of infant mortality in the country. If the revival of the birth rate is a primordial issue, it cannot obscure the situation of children who are born prematurely. Promoting the family only makes sense if the most fragile are protected, those for whom life has deviated from the expected path. Investing in the early days means preparing for the future and protecting families who are the bedrock of society. France is now ranked 23rd among European countries, which means that the country now has infant mortality higher than the European Union average. The explanation of this problem society seems twofold. On the one hand, the current organization of healthcare structures no longer seems appropriate with a significant territorial imbalance which disrupts equal access to critical care. On the other hand, newborns, particularly premature ones, are not sufficiently taken into account in health policies: perinatal decrees date back, it seems, 30 years ago and are therefore no longer in line with advances current technologies. The MP therefore wishes to know if she plans to update the perinatal decrees and more generally to think about a public health policy dedicated to premature newborns in order to combat infant mortality which has been increasing for 20 years in France, while the resources devoted to health in the country have constantly increased.

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