On Friday 9 October 2015, the Luxembourg Minister of Health Lydia Mutsch inaugurated the 10th Learning Day at the Clinique Bohler, focused on all aspects related to the bereavement process.
At the session, entitled 'The Mourning Process: Living with the Irreparable?', the Minister stated "It can symbolise all the despair following the experience of the death of a loved one or represent the possibility of a mourning process focused more on a positive future, by promoting the reconstruction of the self, knowing that each being lost is irreplaceable".
Statistics show that the perinatal mortality birth rate, involving stillbirths during pregnancy and the death of a newborn in the first seven days, has steadily decreased between 1970 and 2009, from 19 deaths per 1,000 births to 5.
This is a result of improved medical checks, following the implementation of systematic medical examinations for pregnant women, the introduction of a maternity record and the systematic medical supervision of young children.
The Health Minister congratulated the 'Pôle Femme, Mère, Enfant' Directorate of the Clinique Bohler for selecting the encounter between the mother or parents and prenatal diagnosis team as its chosen central theme.
"As Minister of Health, I find it important to promote a positive health culture, even if it is in this context of psychic/maternal mental health in the different forms of loss or bereavement," explained the Minister. "It involves not forgetting the mourning of the relatives who have lost a loved one".
Every year, the Clinique Bohler organises a workshop focused on themes directly related to gynaecology and obstetrics, with the objective of enabling exchanges between experts in the field. Previous topics have centered around relaxation therapy, parenting, breastfeeding or breast cancer and pain management.
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