Nîmes University Hospital: behind the scenes, the succession of Nicolas Best to the position of general director is being prepared…

L'ancien directeur général avait été démis de ses fonctions en novembre dernier. Midi Libre – MiKAEL ANISSET

Huit candidats sont auditionnés pour le poste convoité de directeur général du premier employeur du Gard.

Last November, the news came like a hammer: in the middle of a trial for suspicions of favoritism and passive corruption, the head of the CHU Nicolas Best learned of his dismissal, by decision of the President of the Republic. Since then, his former deputy, Eric Dupeyron, has taken over in the interim.

The name of the future director known at the end of March

But according to our information, the new name of the general director should be known by the end of March. Mayor Jean-Paul Fournier, in his capacity as president of the Supervisory Board, has been receiving since Friday the eight candidates selected by the Ministry of Health in a shortlist. Heard also in the presence of the president of the Establishment Medical Commission (CME), Professor Michel Prudhomme, and the dean of the Montpellier-Nîmes medical faculty, Professor Isabelle Laffont, the eight potential successors of Nicolas Best all passed , we are told by the Rennes school and present a solid file.

Unless the situation changes, the Ministry of Health should subsequently endorse the choice presented by the representatives of the Nîmes institution, the department's first public employer…