Covid, the prosecutors: the investigation into the deaths in the RSA of Genoa must be archived but the relatives of the victims will be able to ask for compensation
Genoa – The investigation into the deaths in the Genoa nursing homes during the Covid pandemic must be closed but the relatives of the victims can request compensation in civil proceedings. Firstly because there was no “national pandemic plan” and then because of “the critical profiles detected in some structures”. I write it the prosecutors of the Health pool of the Genoa prosecutor’s office, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Francesco Pinto, in the reasons with which they have asked for storage for 15 people between directors and legal managers of the six structures (the RSA of Chiavari, the Residenza Anni Azzurri Sacra Famiglia of Rivarolo, the Rehabilitation Center, the Don Orione Paverano, La Camandolina and the Residenza San Camillo) which have ended up in the crosshairs due to the high number of deaths in the first four months of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic.
They emerged, write the prosecutors, “in general, on the one hand, the absolute unpreparedness of the State in the face of a pandemic for which no plan had been prepared for years and considerable difficulties for the structures to implement the measures and indications recommended over the various weeks by the health authorities”. difficulty obtaining supplies. Some facilities, in the first emergency phase, gave employees “swiffer-type cloth” masks, others had commissioned fabric masks, almost all of which required careful use of the devices given the small number available”.
“It is certainly true that in certain structures the scarce protections available to the personnel were not imposed in their daily use but the fact must be underlined – conclude the magistrates – that the same public health authorities appointed to issue the correct prescriptions to be fulfilled to avoid contagion, they seemed to have contradictory scientific approaches”.