During their stay in the in-patient sector, the mother and child benefit from the possibility of intervention every day of the year, twenty-four hours a day, including in emergencies, by a paediatrician, a gynaecologist-obstetrician and an anaesthetist-resuscitator.
The unit is organised in such a way as to be able to call on the services of a psychologist or psychiatrist as required.
The number of staff working in the inpatient sector depends on the activity of the obstetrics unit. Whatever the activity of the sector, it may not be less than one midwife, assisted by a nursing auxiliary and a childcare auxiliary during the day and one midwife or one nurse, assisted by a childcare auxiliary, at night.
Except where the provisions of the penultimate paragraph of 1° and 3° of article D. 6124-44 are applied for obstetrics units with less than 500 births per year, these are staff assigned to the hospitalisation sector who cannot have other concomitant tasks in another sector or unit.