Jean-Marie Courtin, president of the community of communes Quercy Bourian and mayor of Gourdon, wishes to speak about the situation of the Jean-Coulon hospital, of which he chairs the supervisory board. It does not omit a complicated situation but recalls the planned investments.
“I can’t let anyone say anything. Gourdon hospital will not eventually become just a retirement home, even if we have the largest nursing home in the department. Our hospital center is experiencing operating problems like all hospitals. hospitals in France The first to be encountered is that of a lack of personnel, including nursing auxiliaries, nurses, radiology technicians and doctors, with rural hospitals being even more affected than in urban areas.
Everything must be done to retain its staff, for this the management team must be as close as possible, listening to the agents, which has not always been the case. This also involves improving social dialogue.
The nursing staff is more and more solicited due to a lack of manpower, which leads to an increasingly increased fatigue of the teams. This is the reason why a service of 26 beds has been temporarily closed, it will reopen in September, so that the staff are less stressed and can take leave this summer.
Then, the chairman of the supervisory board projects himself and advances the positive points. “Thanks to Ségur de la santé, we have obtained a grant of €10 million, the largest allocated in the Lot, proof of confidence in this establishment, to carry out work in 2023 for an amount of €25 million. Jean-Coulon has high-performance equipment, a 64-slice scanner for carrying out corono-scans, in addition to emergencies and radiology, outpatient medicine including pneumology, dermatology, nephrology, urology, stomatology, angiology, etc.
This establishment meets a real need, in a sector where the population, 60,000 inhabitants, is aging and with very limited means of transport. At the end of the year, an MRI must be installed allowing a great capacity for investigations. The Samu will receive a new vehicle equipped with the most efficient intervention equipment.”
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