The Regional Secretariat for Employment and Social Solidarity decided to constitute, as part of the Institute of Social Action (IAS), a new team of verification for the immediate counting of the current situation of assistance to the elderly living in the Levada Retirement Home, in Ponta Delgada.
The initiative of that department of the Executive appears in the sequence of the high number of complaints of relatives and of the several carried out verifications, in the last three years, by the IAS to this service of the House of Mercy of Ponta Delgada, which showed signs of anomalies and turned in the sending to the Attorney General of the respective reports, reporting facts that show negligence in the management of the daily cares to the elderly.
With the verification now determined, the Government intends, still, to gather informations on the processes of financial support, adaptation of the board of staff existent to the accomplishment of nocturnal shifts of support to the elderly, condition of conservation of the property and of its equipment, management chain and of responsibility in the co-ordination of the home and on the existence of sufficient technical helps for the quality of the given service.