The mayors of the community of municipalities mobilized for the recruitment of a director of the Millau and Saint-Affrique hospitals

La ministre de la Santé alertée sur la situation de l'hôpital de Millau. Midil ibre – Eva Tissot

INFO MIDI LIBRE – Les maires de la communauté de communes Millau grands causses ont alerté la ministre de la Santé sur la vacance du poste de direction des hôpitaux de Millau et Saint-Affrique.

The situation raises questions within the Millau and Saint-Affrique hospitals. Especially when the latter continue to feed the chronicle due to degraded services, like recently the emergency rooms in Millau. The situation concerns users and professionals. The latter continue to wave the red flag about the situation of the two establishments while waiting for the arrival of the joint hospital.

A new problem is added to the others: that of recruiting a new director. Indeed, since the departure of Sylvie Marty at the head of the two hospitals, Benoît Durand has taken over in the interim. A recruitment procedure for stable management had been launched and the person selected ultimately withdrew. During a second procedure, only Benoît Durand was a candidate. He went through all the stages before finally not being selected. "Yet he does the job, we indicate in the corridors. He could come with a whole team to the management and start a long job but he can't as long as he takes over the position on an interim basis."

"His professionalism is fully recognized"

Following this misunderstanding, as president of the community of communes Millau grands causses and president of the supervisory board, Emmanuelle Gazel sent a letter, co-signed with the other councilors of the community of communes&nbsp ;to Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Health, to move forward on this issue.

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"He demonstrated his know-how and his interpersonal skills. His professionalism is fully recognized by the members of the two PCME (Presidents of the medical commission, Editor's note) and by the staff. Mr. Sébastien David, Mayor of Saint-Affrique and I can attest to the permanent involvement of Mr. Durand who ensured the proper functioning of our two establishments, is it written in this letter. Maintaining Mr. Benoît Durand in an unjustified interim period undermines the proper functioning of both structures and further weakens the proper monitoring of the future hospital project, thus giving his detractors an argument. I have expressed my incomprehension several times to Mr Didier Jaffre, DGARS Occitanie, who himself recognizes the need to find stable management. If the situation continues, I fear that the Acting Director will no longer have the capacity to properly carry out his missions to the extent that he cannot build a team around him."< /em>