the essential
The final blows of the pickaxes on the construction site of the Institute for Young Blind People have been given. Its opening will be very soon. We can trust community elected official Daniel Coupy who has just confirmed this information. This highly anticipated commissioning should generate around fifty jobs in Cahors.
The institute for young blind people, announced more than a year ago in Cahors, raised many questions about the reality and the realization of the project as it dragged on for so long. The city is bustling with impatience.
The community councilor of Grand Cahors, Daniel Coupy, announced the color this Wednesday: “The opening of this structure is imminent, that is to say really in the coming days. Everything is finished. The last touch concerned the coated the roadway and the parking lot, then some final safety measures” he indicates.
Road users and residents who pass by these desperately empty buildings every day also had questions. They wondered if the big job-creating project promised was simply going to go wrong or even collapse.
The need for restructuring of the association
Daniel Coupy is reassuring and full of enthusiasm. “The delay we are seeing comes from administrative complications experienced by the association responsible for managing this establishment.” The local authority cannot therefore be held responsible for this delay.
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“After some difficulties and a restructuring that seemed necessary, the association was able to immediately bounce back and find funds which relaunched the project. It must be said that the latter was stopped for several months, almost a year in fact. C “is a lot” underlines the community representative with a little annoyance.
“I cannot report it here, but there were internal management problems within the association. After these difficulties which did not make it possible to realize the project sooner, this associative structure left on new bases.”
Another false joy after a visit to the end of the work
Daniel Coupy continues: “After a long wait, the construction site resumed in the spring. The roads were first treated, then my elected colleague Françoise Faubert went to an ERP commission (Establishment open to the public), but work still needed to be completed before receiving the green light for the opening. So the preliminary visit could not take place as planned. The mayor wanted to inaugurate this institute in October 2024 and he was worried about the delay. taken.”
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The inconveniences of the delay now over, Daniel Coupy welcomes the creation of around fifty jobs to support this structure which will accommodate as many patients.
Twelve ophthalmologists expected in mid-January in the Cahors Sud sector
On the other hand, the city of Cahors and Grand Cahors do not hide their common satisfaction with the progress of the building site which will allow the installation of twelve ophthalmologists in the Cahors South area. This from mid-January 2025. This profession is still too poorly represented in Cahors, with endless waiting times. The people of Lot who are poorly off, in terms of certain health services, have in sight this progress which will change their lives… and their vision.
