"You are rotting, man"/ The old man with wounds to the bone was not cured in the asylum

2024-12-10 21:25:00, Denoncim CNA

"You are rotting, man"/ The old man with wounds to the bone was not

A young woman from Elbasan, who lives and works as a head nurse in Germany, says that she has a relative in the State Asylum in Elbasan, as the Balashe Center is otherwise known. She says her 77-year-old relative, Sadik Biba, is suffering from open wounds that go to the bone due to dirt, lack of movement and medical care.

The elderly man was cured months ago in Elbasan and Tirana, but in September he was sent back to the Asylum, without fully recovering. Now Sadik's body has started to rot and the asylum workers say they have nothing to do with him. The elderly man does not have a diagnosis, but according to the whistleblower, his wounds were caused by the dirt, immobility and lack of care in the Asylum.

"Hello, I am a resident of the city of Elbasan. I have been working in Germany for several years, where I currently work as a head nurse. I have a relative in the Asylum for the Elderly in the city of Elbasan. He has been living there for four years because he has no family to take care of him, he is alone. Every time I go back and forth from Germany to Albania, I try to be interested in going there and meet the main needs. The last time I was there was in September, there was a very big medical problem, a very serious health infection. Wounds that are caused when you sit still, from hygiene, humidity or not washing or not taking care of the patient as a whole cause them to go so deep, to the bone. I am traumatized, there are in several places, on my back, on both sides of my legs where one is down to the bone. In inhumane conditions, he was admitted to the Elbasan Emergency, I had to go there myself for 3-4 days until he was given direction, where he will go and who will take care of him. He was finally taken over at the Infectious Disease Hospital of Tirana, where he was treated for several weeks, 3-4 weeks. I was in contact with the doctors about how the procedure was, the continuation until finally they said that he would return to Elbasan, to the Elbasan hospital and then again to the Asylum", said the whistleblower on the microphone of the show "Stop".

"Stop" went to the asylum, but the employees claim that they asked for help at the Elbasan hospital, help that has been neglected for many reasons and due to the lack of coordination of the health links in this city.

Asylum employee: Shall I take you where you want?

Journalist: To Sadik, let's take him to the hospital, because he could die here...!

Asylum workers: Here, man, I'll take you, wherever you want, now...

Journalist: Do your homework brother!

Asylum employees: We don't do the job... take him where he needs to be, to the hospital!

Journalist: Yes, his wounds are festering.

Asylum workers: One minute! Don't come with a tendency! Come on in to take a shower! We are very free..

Journalist: Absolutely, absolutely...! Yes, no, what am I going to do with people who are old and in trouble?! I'm saying, he has wounds, let's take him to the hospital! Why didn't you take it?

Asylum workers: Yes, we have taken...

Reporter: Raise the alarm, man! It has been a month without being cured.

Asylum workers: Yes, we told you.

Reporter: Report to the police, the doctor doesn't come, because it can't be done like this... An animal on the street, which is sick, they take it and treat it... it has pus... its wound has rotted.

Asylum workers: Oh brother! We have others like him here…

Journalist: Even worse, that you have others like him!

Asylum workers: Why so much worse...?

Journalist: Take them, cure them...!

Asylum workers: We are treating them. We have 24 hours more oxygen...

Reporter: Where did you cure him sir? Here the smell stinks.

Asylum Workers: Because it's rotting, man...

The complainant says that the old man cannot speak.

"Treatment of wounds and in the end not to suffer, a sedative I don't know when was the last time it was done, I was myself yesterday and I said to the nurse please a sedative sir, "he didn't tell me anything" , He doesn't have a mouth to speak and say, he can't speak because he has other diseases, he speaks very little and very softly, but mostly moans because the pain of those wounds is simply terrible."

On the other hand, the asylum workers say that they have nothing to do and do not know where to report.

Journalist: Report it, my lady...!

Asylum employees: Where do I report it?!

Journalist: At Stop, at the police...!

Asylum employees: I was familiar with him, when I left, I pulled the patient, the beneficiary, and the doctor told me that...

Journalist: I know, but it can't be kept in that state here...

Asylum workers: Now, what should we do now?! We have these opportunities...

Journalist: Take him to the hospital!

Asylum employees: It does not keep the hospital...

Journalist: Why doesn't the hospital keep him?! The hospital cannot hold a corpse that is not alive.

Asylum employees: We took him, it was Elbasan... Will you listen to me? We took him to Elbasan, Elbasan took him to Tirana, Tirana made the exit.

"Stop" announced the emergency of Elbasan, where the doctor examined Sadik's condition and placed him in the hospital, in the intensive care unit.

"Normally, all the examinations will be taken, the appropriate treatment will be given, the advice of the specialists will be taken, and if he returns to the center, we will be in contact and for whatever needs he may have, we will support him with medication or the needs that we can to have for continuous treatment", said the doctor.

The case of this elderly man highlights the urgent need for the creation of Rehabilitation Centers for this category of the impossible in extreme health conditions./ tvklan