Caltanissetta: irregularities at a retirement home. 4 subjects arrested for mistreatment, kidnapping and abandonment of incompetent people
Medical personnel also participated in the operations, carrying out appropriate and accurate checks in order to verify the current health conditions of the elderly.
Caltanissetta: irregularities at a retirement home. 4 subjects arrested for mistreatment, kidnapping and abandonment of incompetent people.
Yesterday morning soldiers from the Carabinieri Company of Caltanissetta carried out a precautionary custody order which, during the preliminary investigations, subjects four subjects residing in the city of Caltanissetta to house arrest, three of whom belong to the same family unit, seriously suspected, in various capacities, in relation to the crimes of kidnapping, abusive exercise of the healthcare profession and abandonment of incapable persons, against elderly guests of a retirement home located in Caltanissetta.
The order, issued during the preliminary investigations by the Caltanissetta GIP at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, originates from a broad and detailed investigative activity, conducted starting from June 2023 by the NORM Operational Section of the Carabinieri Company, would have an illicit conduct of the child welfare activity was detected elderly guests of a retirement home in Nisse, who were abandoned every day, even for several hours, despite their requests for care, placing them in a situation of serious danger to their personal safety, without adequate assistance - especially at night - within the structure.
During the investigations, it also emerged that the retirement home would have lacked adequate organizational and even hygienic-sanitary requirements, as it was characterized by toilets lacking covers, a shortage of special bathrooms for people with disabilities and non-functioning air conditioners.
The investigations carried out would have made it possible to clarify the absence of suitable professional figures, as they lack qualifications, necessary to correctly safeguard the health of patients.
Due to a management policy aimed at containing expenses by hiring fewer operators than expected and necessary, the elderly guests would also have been administered tranquilizer medicines without any medical prescription in order to deal with the absence of staff especially during the night time slots, thus reducing the risk of having to provide active night care.
The investigative activity would even have made it possible to ascertain, against one of the suspects, a series of behaviors which would constitute the crime of kidnapping, as the elderly patient was literally locked up in his bed through the use of iron grids, normally used as lateral barriers, preventing him from moving during the night.
The soldiers of the Carabinieri, at the disposal of the investigating judge of Caltanissetta, have made room the rest home is under seizure, now entrusted to a judicial administrator, also carrying out a health and hygiene inspection of the same structure with the help of staff from the Anti-adulteration and Healthcare Unit of Ragusa, aimed at ascertaining the existence of further non-compliances.
Medical personnel also participated in the operations, carrying out appropriate and accurate checks in order to verify the current health conditions of the elderly.
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