337 facilities for the elderly inspected by the Carabinieri del Nas during the Easter holidays, as part of an intense campaign throughout the national territory aimed at ascertaining compliance with the levels of assistance and care.
The checks revealed that 56 social-health and accommodation facilities, equal to 17% of those inspected, had irregularities ranging from reduced staff to hygienic deficiencies and failure to comply with anti-Covid regulations.
The monitoring, conducted from 2 to 6 April, concerned assisted nursing homes (Rsa), retirement homes, community accommodation and family homes, and was prepared, in agreement with the Ministry of Health, during the holiday period during which record a reduction in operators, causing a decrease in the level of services and an increase in situations of abandonment, the negative consequences of which may be accentuated in the context of the pandemic.
During the surveillance, 16 criminal and 50 administrative sanctions were contested, mainly due to hygienic and structural deficiencies, the presence of a higher number of elderly people than the maximum authorized capacity, often placed in excessively confined environments, as well as non-compliance with anti-Covid measures, such as the lack of periodic sanitation and the lack of training of personnel in the field of prevention of the spread of the infection.
But also situations of reduced assistance provided to the elderly due to an insufficient number of operators per shift, sometimes even without professional qualifications with respect to the tasks required.
Due to serious violations ascertained, the immediate closure of 4 structures was ordered and the elderly present were transferred to their families of origin or to other structures.
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