By Fabrice Alves-Teixeira
Sandrine Dauchelle no longer wants to work with the SMIN, the occupational health service in Noyonnais. She now wishes to engage her two communities (city and Pays Noyonnais) with the Présoa company based in Compiègne. Monday, December 9, the elected officials of the community of municipalities refused the new deal. But Friday evening, the city voted (except the opposition) for a change of service provider during its last municipal council.
Dr Didier Payen’s approximations
The debate was an opportunity for the deputy for health, Dr Didier Payen to… contradict himself. Monday evening, he assured that Présoa would cost as much, or even less, than the SMIN. On Friday, the cost became similar again. “It’s not for reasons of savings,” the elected official finally admitted. The opposition rushed into the breach, calling the elected official a liar. The former doctor didn’t like it.
Not for the money, but for what?
The opposition understands that this is not a question of money. But she rather suggests that the SMIN, which has seen many – too many – agents burn out, is too favorable to agents for the tastes of the mayor and president Dauchelle. We can also wonder to what extent the SMIN reports revealed in our columns in September 2023 annoyed the Noyonnais executive? The two reports were indeed damning regarding the management of Sandrine Dauchelle.
Has Dr. Payen “worked” enough?
But for Didier Payen the truth is elsewhere: he in fact listed on Friday, as on Monday evening, the grievances that the two communities made against the SMIN doctors. Interrupted in the reading of his file (already read four days earlier) by the opposition councilor Carole Bureau-Bonnard, the deputy then betrays himself, explaining having enriched the list of reproaches: “I have been looking since Monday, I ‘I worked anyway.’ Does this mean that on Monday, during his presentation to the community council, the deputy proposed burying a local service without having “worked”? During Friday’s debates, the principle of collaboration with Présoa having been adopted, the elected official promised: “I will ensure that what happens from now on” in terms of occupational medicine. Does this mean that this was not the case before?
Finally, proof that he may not have worked hard enough: opposition councilor Virginie Fonseca (health engineer) detected “serious errors” in the drafting of the agreement with Présoa. An intervention which seemed to sow doubt on the benches of the majority. Until we have to vote again on the file, there is perhaps not far…
