A resident of the Saint-Cyprien district deplores the fact that trash cans are often left in front of the exit of the deceased from Joseph Ducuing hospital in Toulouse. The establishment, for its part, ensures that it knows the problem and seeks solutions.
“It breaks my heart!” Monique, a resident of the Saint-Cyprien district, in Toulouse, is angry. Frequently, while walking her dog, rue Juan de Pin, she finds herself faced with a sight that saddens her: garbage cans stored in front of the funeral exit of the Joseph Ducuing hospital. A space where the vans come in particular to pick up the coffins.
Trash cans in front of the entrance
“Regularly, when I pass, I see families, who come to accompany the exit of the coffin to then follow the funeral procession, find themselves next to the containers…”, says the Toulouse woman. . And she claims not to be the only one to deplore this situation. “I have spoken about it several times with neighbors”.
The trash cans in front of the exit of the deceased from the Joseph Ducuing hospital, Thursday at 2 p.m.
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“Of course, the trash cans are not always outside, they are inside a room. But they often take them out for garbage collection, and there are a lot of them… So it happens that they are still there when the weather passes. van”.
“Monday evening for example, they were all amalgamated in front of the entrance to the funeral home,” she says, supporting photos. “I understand that we have to leave them somewhere,” she concedes. “But for it to be juxtaposed like that next to this funeral room, I find it inhuman”.
The hospital is working on the problem
For its part, the Joseph Ducuing hospital ensures that it knows and thinks about the problem. “We are working in this direction with the district mayor to find solutions”, explains Cathy Garcia, the director. “When our bins are taken out of our premises, they are lined up properly, along a wall. But when the people from the roads take them, they are indeed repositioned in a somewhat anarchic way, which can block the ‘access to our establishment’.
“In any case, no family has ever complained to date about the garbage cans”, she assures, before emphasizing: “The hospital is very sensitive to the care of the patient and to the reception families”.
A year ago, Monique decided to write to Jean-Paul Bouche, mayor of the Saint-Cyprien district. “I offered to have the wall, which is dirty and degraded, repainted by graffiti artists. The patients could thus dream a little”. La Toulousaine also proposed to install some vegetation along this wall. If she received positive feedback from the elected official a few months ago, she claims to have had no news since.
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