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AGI – Completely naked, left on the floor with their excrement, wedged between the protective bars of the bed, left to themselves with painful wounds. Mocked and offended. At the Villa San Camillo retreat house in Aci Sant’Antonio, in the Catania area, the elderly were treated in this way. A hell of shouting and violence in the structure reduced to a concentration camp. There is a photo that shows a pressure ulcer in a patient older than seventy years, not adequately treated and that worsens significantly over time.
The hygienic-sanitary conditions of the structure are precarious: Sighted mice and the elderly (30 versus a maximum capacity of 24) have contracted scabies. Just some of the gruesome details revealed by an investigation by the judiciary and the carabinieri. Thus, the investigating judge ordered the temporary prohibition of the exercise of business activity, of twelve months, against the administrator of the structure, and the temporary prohibition of the exercise of the profession in nursing homes and nursing homes for the elderly, for nine years. months, against three employees.
The investigation began after the seizure of some phones, which took place in July 2019: among the seized mobile phones, in particular, that of an employee was searched and in the memory there were numerous photos, taken in the retirement home between March and June 2019, in which it was glimpsed abuse. It was the carabinieri from the Aci Sant’Antonio station who began the investigations.
During an inspection visit by soldiers assisted by colleagues from the Catania Labor Inspection Unit, it was found that in one of the bedrooms on the first floor, a guest was literally trapped in his bed, unable to get up due to some chairs and a sofa placed on the sides of the bed, which prevented his movement. In addition to those regularly hired, eleven employees worked illegally, including two of the suspects, and some were reported for having illegally received income from the citizens.
Therefore, psychophysical violence is particularly intense: “Disgusting, dirty, there is no more disgusting than you, now I leave her on the chair all dirty with pee, like pigs, “were the words directed at the victims, including a 100-year-old who was later forced to go to bed alone as punishment. Horrible treatments reserved for everyone, too to a woman who was tied up in tears and left dirty.
The bugs placed in the nursing home revealed that the manager had not supervised the employees so as not to prevent them from mistreating the elderly, in a habitual atmosphere of harassment, humiliation and mortification. Without assistance, even in the face of your repeated requests for help; on several occasions the elderly were tied to tables or beds, washed with cold water and, as punishment, they did not change or clean themselves, they were left in bed with dirty sheets; or wash them with soap from the washing machine and then tease them for their “aloe vera scent.”
