The revelations after the prosecution and police investigation of an illegal nursing home in Serres are shocking.
Doctors and managers at funeral homes earned money and sent elderly people to death.
As the mayor of Herakleia Serres said "we saw that there were elderly people who could not move and could not move. We made sure that they were taken to the hospital to determine their state of health."
On the other hand, a pharmacist in the area revealed while speaking to ERT how the illegal nursing home was discovered by the National Police.
"We saw an old lady with her nightgown wet running and wandering the streets. Then without knowing where it came from, the police were alerted and the illegal nursing home was discovered," said the pharmacist
According to the report, relatives of the elderly who were paying believed the explanations and fake documents shown to them by the managers of the illegal nursing home.
Month-long investigation
It is noted that the month-long investigation followed the discovery of a home for the elderly in October 2020 in an area of Serres.
The Herakleia Police Department formed a case against a total of 7 people. As it turns out, the case involves 3 people who operated the illegal nursing home, 2 doctors and 2 funeral directors, who covered up the death of 2 elderly women who were staying in the guesthouse without medical care, to show that they died in the homes of their relatives
In more detail, the investigation, according to the ELAS, began after the discovery of a hostel in Serres in October 2020, which was operating illegally hosting elderly and people with mobility problems, while the 51-year-old manager of the hostel had been arrested.
Illegal Nursing Home in Serres - Against whom, a criminal case was formed
For the same case, a criminal case was formed against six more people: The above-mentioned arrested man and two women, 52 and 47 years old, of Greek origin, on a case by case basis for gang, exposure, violation of drug legislation, violation of measures for the prevention of diseases and instigating the issuance and use of false medical certificates, 54-year-old man and 62-year-old woman, doctors, for issuing and using false medical certificates and two men, 55 and 60 years old, of Greek origin, funeral directors, for complicity in issuing and using false medical certificates.
In particular, as revealed by the police investigation, at least from August to October 16, 2020, the man who had been arrested as the manager of the guesthouse, together with the two women, operated as a circuit with distinct roles and had converted the guesthouse in question into a retirement home, with the purpose of illegal financial gain.
As it had been ascertained, the hostel, which was operating without the necessary licence, housed elderly people and people with mobility problems, in unsuitable living conditions and without hygiene measures, while drug tablets had been found, for which the required medical prescriptions were not available.
Covered up the death of elderly people, what has emerged about the illegal nursing home in Serres
Further investigation found that in September and October 2020, in 2 cases of death of elderly women residing in the guest house without medical care, the aforementioned men who operated the hospice, together with the two doctors and the two managers of the funeral parlours, covered up the death of the women, so that it would appear that they died in the homes of their relatives.
Specifically, in order not to reveal the illegal nursing home and the inadequate care they provided, they concealed the death of the two women, who were taken to the homes of their relatives with the assistance of the funeral directors and then, by issuing certificates by the two doctors, they falsely certified that the death occurred in the above-mentioned homes.
The case file was resubmitted to the Investigating Authorities of Serres.
Source: in.gr
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