During the holidays, the checks by the Nas carabinieri intensified in accommodation facilities hosting the elderly or people with disabilities : RSA and rest homes ended up in the sights of the military who acted to verify the correct provision of care and support.
Precisely in this period, they recall, there is an increase in the demand for hospitality and the maintenance of the level of assistance does not always correspond to this.
The campaign covered the entire national territory: 607 social-health and welfare activities were inspected, with particular attention on Christmas and New Year's holidays, also in the evening and at night. 152 irregular structures, including RSA, rest homes, community accommodation and family homes, equal to 25%, 27 people sanctioned for criminal violations and 133 for administrative offences, for a total of 167 thousand euros, attributable to hygienic/structural and authorization deficiencies, presence of a higher number of elderly people than the authorized capacity, medical devices and medicines out of validity, irregularities in the management of drugs, food in a poor state of conservation.
Furthermore, the closure of 6 accommodation facilities, found to be abusive or deficient in health and welfare matters, was ordered.
Among the reported cases, that of an Rsa in the province of Nuoro whose medical director was denounced together with the lawyer in charge of the cooperative contracting the supply of nursing staff, for having allowed, within the structure, the abusive exercise of the profession of nurse to two operators not registered in the relevant professional order.
Two further inspections were carried out in as many structures in the province of Sassari, and led to the deferment to the state of freedom of the lawyer responsible for a rest home for having detained, for subsequent administration to the elderly guests, 9 packs of medicines at different from what is required by the indications on conservation.
(Unioneonline/ss)
