After the health care scandal surrounding the Senecura house in Salzburg-Lehen, the Ombudsman is again criticised. Above all, home surveillance shows that this is unreasonable.
Inhumane conditions, starving residents, far too few staff: in September, the Ombudsman presented a devastating report on the conditions in the nursing home in Lehen. Biggest point of criticism: The home tutor and the country would have been aware of the conditions and looked into it. The excitement was great, the residents in the house were returned and Deputy Governor Heinricht Schellhorn resigned.
Now the statements from the Salzburg authorities have arrived at the Ombudsman’s office – and Ombudsman Bernhard Achitz has mixed feelings about it. “The politically relevant reaction is very understandable. It is very understandable that there is an internal audit and that people want to wait for the report on further measures,” says Achitz.
Home surveillance is unreasonable
But one point irritated the Ombudsman: the statement of the home supervisor. “Their sense of injustice is coming to an end. They still think they did everything right and there was no reason to intervene,” Achitz says. “But you could see there was no appropriate care,” he adds. This indifference is a problem.
In order to stabilize the situation, only 50 people in need of care currently live in the crisis house. “Whether that’s tenable, I can’t say yet. We will certainly stay informed about the problem. It is unacceptable that human dignity is affected as a result of care,” he says.
Source: Krone
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