The establishment will close its doors on December 31. Families, residents and even village officials learned the news recently a few weeks before the closure.
“What a lack of courtesy! No elected official from Mercuès was alerted. Not even me, who learned about it from a resident.”testifies Ludovic Dizengremel, mayor of Mercuès, a town in the Lot. No one had been warned of the closure of an nursing home on December 31, according to our colleagues at La Dépêche du Midi. Residents who have “cried, very anxious about leaving their room, losing their bearings and their friends”, testifying to a “sentiment d’abandon”.
“Everything was done on the sly”
The village mayor was very surprised by the closure of the establishment, created in 1962, who explains that “everything was done on the sly.” “The Beauséjour nursing home in Mercuès will close on December 31 and residents learned of this through an announcement made from room to room, less than a month ago”testifies a family. Another denounces to La Dépêche du Midi the timing of this announcement: “They learn this just before the Christmas holidays, it’s shameful. What a lack of humanity.”
According to information from our colleagues, the UGRM/MUTAMI mutual which took over the structure in 2004 would like to move towards the development of its follow-up care and rehabilitation (SSR) activities. In the region, other establishments have offered to accommodate residents, notably in Pradines or Cahors, explained Mayor Ludovic Dizengremel.
