The standard approved in Parliament last summer they were of little use and were easily circumvented by footnotes that replaced the keys of the rsa firmly in the hands of the health directors. And so, beyond the proclamations and turns of phrase, the structures that house the elderly who are not self-sufficient, the Assisted Health ResidencesI’m closed to the public for two full years. Except for very rare exceptions which mostly concerned the cases of moribund (and not all of them), the reopening, in the periods in which there have been, have concerned only a few spaces of the Rsa as i gardens or the inputs that have been transformed into talkers for parental visits. While the halls where once volunteers, grandchildren, children, brothers, doctors, officials, messengers and visitors of all kinds and types used to come and go, have emptied out, leaving space to waiting and lonelinesswhile age and ailments have run their course ferociously.
He knows it well Lisa Noja (Italia Viva) that in the course of the explanations of vote on the dl Covid about the rules for access to the RSA, he admitted that “unfortunately we had to change many times those rules why what was expected did not translate into a concrete change of the situation experienced by the guests of many structures. Despite those words still today many citizens and towns housed in RSAs cannot see their family members for unjustifiable reasons“. And so it was done again in recent days with an amendment “to sanction just this, that the exercise of the right to visit it must be instead continuous because it is a fundamental human right. I hope this is really the last time we will have to intervene and that finally the words written on this issue are effective ”, she concluded.
In doubt among the relatives there are still those who do not give up and do not let their guard down. This is the case with the Orsan Committee (Open Rsa now), which launched a “strike of the fees“With suspension of automatic payments and the stop on the April balance for RSAs who have not restored visits to relatives. “We ask all the family members of the guests of the RSA, RSD and all the communities today armoredOf go off-hook indefinitely and our Reed e do not pay the tuition of April. And if necessary also that of May and June until the RSA understand that our loved ones they are their customers and not prisoners awaiting trialwhich nevertheless never arrives “, declared in recent days the president of Orsan, Dario Francolino.
According to Orsan’s patron, “the time has come to join forces again and work as one person. Everyone. We have to count and like little pieces of Lego build the reopening path recalling their responsibilities the leaders of the Italian RSA, general managers and health managers. We want to meet them and work for real reopening“. The deadline is March 19th, Father’s Day. “Let’s just do it now, tonight, tomorrow morning, asap. If you want to help your loved ones we must show how united we are strong. The Italian RSA they have a turnover of over 12 billion a year. Believe me if you skip two months of tuition, they manage to survive. Then it will depend on them. We just want to meet them and ask them when they will reopen as well as before. Together we matter more ”.