• Coronavirus. Spi-CGIL alarm: "Nursing homes are time bombs. 500 thousand elderly at risk"
  • Elderly emergency, the positives in nursing homes increase

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11 April 2020 The Prosecutor of the Republic of Novara has ordered an "exploratory" investigation, without suspects and without hypothesis of crime, to collect as much information as possible on the deaths in the RSA or the health care residences of the provincial territory. A due act, the Prosecutor said, because the situation, in most of the 33 nursing homes active in the Novara area, has been and is very worrying. In fact, there are now dozens of deaths among the RSA guests, which in some cases are also exhausted by the lack of staff: numerous nurses and infected OSS, with enormous difficulties in guaranteeing the service.

It is precisely on the front of the RSA that the commissioner ad acta for the Covid 19 emergency of the ASL of Novara, Gianfranco Zulian, is working in a particular way. Swabs are being carried out in all facilities, at a rate of 200-300 per day, but the time to recover is a long one. Meanwhile, the CGIL Public Function of Novara has urged the crisis unit of the Piedmont Region to verify the situation also within the residential communities for minors and mentally ill patients and to pay attention also to the world of home assistants who move from an elderly person to an elderly person. 'other.