• Trivulzio, 50 family testimonies in the investigation
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June 22, 2020 The collection of testimonies, including doctors, nurses, operators, relatives of the elderly and regional and ATS (former Asl) officials, ended in the investigation by the Milan prosecutor, except for further possible calls for further information. with at the center the infections and deaths at Pio Albergo Trivulzio and the management of the Covid emergency in the structure.

According to what has been learned, investigators are now waiting for the long and complex work that is being carried out by the pool of consultants, including an epidemiologist, who are analyzing, among other things, hundreds of seized medical records, which also concern cases of suspected pneumonia as early as January.

Trivulzio himself announced that between January and April there were a total of 405 deaths in the institute's structures and 45 in May.
In recent weeks, officials of the Health Protection Agency and of the Lombardy Region have been heard as witnesses, including the Deputy Welfare Director, Marco Salmoiraghi.

The other RSAs
Even in the investigations on the other Milanese RSAs, the files are more than 20, the prosecutors of the pool led by the assistant Tiziana Siciliano are awaiting the experts' reports. A job that of consultants that will last for weeks.  

The controls of the Guardia di Finanza
At the same time, the Guardia di Finanza of Milan worked on a reconstruction of all the regional resolutions, of the communications with the ATS (ex ASL) and of the provisions imparted by the latter to the rest homes on various fronts, including the use of masks, but also the transfer of patients from hospitals to the RSA and the making of tampons.

No mask requirement in March
From some documents acquired, such as a "vademecum" which referred to indications from the Ministry of Health and WHO, it appears that at the end of March there was still no specific obligation to use masks for RSA operators. . A topic on which the defenses could point, given that the lack of use of PPE, which was scarce in the early stages of the emergency, could have favored contagion in the structures, as well as the entry of patients with suspected pneumonia even before the case of Codogno.