Another inspection and a closed hospice for the elderly - this time in Ruse. The closure was reached after several inspections and prescriptions.
„The hospice is located in a wooded area in the village of Nikolovo - difficult to access, on a dirt road. It has been under our surveillance for three years, after an elderly man escaped from there“, he explained in “This Sunday“ the mayor of Ruse Pencho Milkov.
Even then, he appealed to all institutions to close the hospice.
„At night, I went in and found things that were not good at all. Only one orderly was taking care of all the people. Three years ago, this place did not have a work permit and had a bad attitude towards people“, Milkov said.
In his words, „with legal loopholes“ the hospice managed to get a permit to operate.
„When the inspections began after my signals, apparently due to some possibility in the law, the people there had registered as a hospice. It is required to have medical personnel, doctors, nurses. This was not established on the spot and was a circumvention of the law“, said the mayor of Ruse.
According to him, it is not just about aggression towards the elderly, because in his words, abandoning them is a form of aggression.
“This is about the breakdown of ties in society and the instillation of hatred“, he said.
56 people have been identified in the now closed hospice. 11 of them have been admitted to the two university hospitals in Ruse and to a psychiatric clinic. The other people are still there, and during the working days they will be accommodated in social institutions.