Vehicles not sanitized and prophylaxis not followed in Pallets. These are the complaints from the USPP regional secretary Alessandro Cara after the TB infections recorded in the Sassari prison . The outbreak was apparently caused by a prisoner, the so-called "source patient", discovered in April.
"As far as we know, the man - says Cara - wasn't even wearing a mask and was in the section in contact with other inmates and the officers." There are no official answers from the local health authority regarding the true extent of the spread of tuberculosis. But a company document is circulating, dating back to the end of June, which acknowledges dozens of inmates testing positive after the Mantoux tests and the Quantiferon dosage, both screening capable of detecting the infection even in latent form. Prison officers are also at risk although, up to now, it is certain, following the revelation of another police union, that only one would have been found positive. "But last week, one hundred were absent from the workplace and those who were in the facility were forced to work 13 and a half hour shifts at a time."
Then the secretary attacks the measures taken to stem the infection: "The vehicles in which the positive inmates were transported were not sanitized." An alarming situation to which the USPP wants to react. "We will ask for an urgent meeting - concludes Alessandro Cara - with the prefect and the public prosecutor." Meanwhile, the lawyers of the Sassari Court have decided to strike from 10 to 12 July due to the conditions faced by Bancali.
