The mobilization around the restructuring of the Coulon nursing home provoked a reaction, on Monday January 6, 2025, from departmental councilor Catherine Pelaud (canton of Saint-Maixent-l'École) and her party, Génération Écologie. “All this is the consequence of chronic financial under-resourcement on the part of the community. While public action should above all serve the interest of Deux-Sévriennes and Deux-Sévriens, it seems on the contrary that it is economic optimization which guides decisions”reacts Generation Ecology, in the wake of the Force Ouvrière union and the families, who spoke out the day before. The opposition party is concerned about the consequences for staff and residents.
A reoriented maintenance
Eager to “reestablish some truths” facing “baseless agitation” and “union activism”the departmental council, owner of the building, “confirms maintaining the home »while asking to engage “a reassessment by the MDPH of the people received”by setting up “the necessary reorientations”. Faced with the significant cost (estimated at 7 million euros) that making the site accessible would represent, it is therefore not planning any work.
People who can no longer be accommodated in the home will be redirected elsewhere in Deux-Sèvres, the community also announced the day before.
