A new chaplain has arrived at Cahors hospital and it is a woman: Claire Trizis, known in Cahors for having been a veterinarian for thirty years. She explains her function.
Wednesday February 10 at Cahors hospital, Hervé Rochais, HR Director, and Cécile Austin, communications officer, presented the new chaplain of the establishment, who is a woman, Claire Trizis. Hervé Rochais is enthusiastic, despite his neutrality: “The wealth of public service is precisely to allow access to different religions. In the hospital, humanity is at the center of everything, there is a common interest to ensure that this passage of the patient takes place in the best conditions. For me, being HRD is being director of human resources. “
A multicultural space of meditation
Chaplain Claire Trizis is Catholic, married and the mother of four children. It was chosen by Bishop Monsignor Laurent Camiade, and presented to the director of the Pierre Nogrette hospital who validated this choice.
Claire Trizis sagaciously discusses her new position: “Being a chaplain means responding to a request, to the need for support from a patient, his family, relatives, but also staff. I work in concert with the nursing teams. , in confidence, in listening and in attention. What matters is the well-being of the person. I have an accompanying priest, Father Shane Lambert and a team of volunteers. The hospital is a micro-society and all faces are represented. There are many questions among young people in particular, they have a spiritual ignorance but research. I have very good discussions with people of other religions or non-believers. I was a veterinarian for 30 years , it is a profession of relationships. I have been more and more attracted by relationships and I have had a personal experience which also made me evolve in this direction. Becoming a chaplain requires a certain path, a introspection. I received a call to Rocamadour. “
On the ground floor of the hospital is the meditation space. Cécile Austin explains: “Today, we no longer speak of the hospital chapel, it is a multicultural space even if its layout is rather Christian.”
This space is only closed at night and celebrations are regularly organized there, it receives a number of passages as confirmed by the messages left in the testimonial book.
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