Covid-era ‘wheeled benches’ sold off for one euro each

(ANSA) – BAGNOLI DI SOPRA, 17 APR – Sold off at the symbolic price of one euro each, the infamous wheelchairs purchased by the State for schools during the Covid pandemic are back to life – not for the purpose for which they were intended . However, most schools considered them inadequate and inconvenient for teaching activities and sent them back to the sender. Today they lie mainly in the warehouses of municipalities and provinces. However, they are back in the news, because a small town in the Padua area, Bagnoli di Sopra, has decided to purchase a hundred of them, at the price of 1 euro each, accepting the offer of the Province of Padua, which had 600 of them in its warehouses. “They are new chairs, never used, certified, and certainly suitable for our purpose” the mayor of Bagnoli, Roberto Milan, told ‘Mattino di Padova’, who was looking for seats to equip a large meeting room inside the former base military of San Siro. “With this purchase – he added – we reach 400 seats. If they had been bought new we would have spent much more”. Four years ago the chairs with wheels and shelf cost around 150 euros each. (HANDLE).