The Ham hospital center remains unclear about its future. As a reminder, two hospital buildings housing Medicine-Addictology activities and nursing homes (retirement homes) are still at risk of closing while work is carried out to secure the premises. All in order to respect the law in connection with the security rules of an establishment open to the public.
Ham hospital staff mobilized
The announcement was made following the passage of the security commission on June 26, which gave an unfavorable opinion, thus ordering the compliance of the premises. Faced with the risk of closure, a staff strike movement was launched on August 22.
Following this action, the unions learned that the town hall had granted a period of four months to carry out this work. “We are within the four month deadline to lift these requirementsconfides the mayor of Ham. Measures have been taken (replacement of fire doors when necessary and presence of a fire safety and personal assistance service agent). And hasToday, all requirements have been lifted except one, which is the heaviest, that of fire safety and smoke extraction.“
Fire safety and smoke extraction, two key points
If the mayor of Ham wishes to highlight the work already accomplished by the management of the hospital and the various parties” who took the issue head on “, he indicates that a decisive meeting is planned for December 2.”so that the Fire Safety Master Plan is presented to us (Editor's note: document which aims to plan and organize measures for prevention, fire fighting and management of emergency situations within a company, a building or an industrial site.). ”
Although he welcomes this progress, the elected representative from Hamois remains worried: “However, this will not be likely to lift the unfavorable opinion, contrary to the wishes expressed by the director and the mayor…“.
A building that will be 100 years old
The first councilor therefore believes that we will know more on December 2 about the feasibility of the work in this building which will soon be a century old (according to the hospital center's website, the building dates from 1932).
The mayor hopes to quickly have answers on the cost of the work or the forecast schedule concerning the compliance of the site : “The deadline granted by the municipality will expire at the end of 2024, so decisions will have to be made following the meeting at the beginning of December”.
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