Michel Bravais was the director of the new Chalon-sur-Saône hospital when it was built. The man who set up the project and got it started. “It is rare for a manager to be able to follow the whole site. Usually there are two or three, ”he says. Because a site like this one, it is more than ten years of reflection, negotiations, constructions. And yet, he might have never come. “Before applying, I came to Chalon very discreetly. What I saw scared me a little (Editor’s note: on Saint-Laurent Island). But I had heard about the construction of a new establishment, ”he continues. We are in 1999 and he signs for a few years. 14 years old in fact.
An emergency
He will stay until 2013. But 22 years earlier, he also knows that the Chalonnais hospital had an essential need for this new building. “If the project was not completed in two or three years, the hospital center of Île Saint-Laurent was destined to become impoverished ….
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