EMPOLI Health care for Alzheimer’s patients must be free. This was established by a sentence of the Court of Florence which resolved on the appeal of the granddaughter, who is also a lawyer, of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s, who had received an injunction from the RSA facility where her grandmother was hospitalized. The family of the deceased elderly woman, Eda Pirami, received the intimation …
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Health care for Alzheimer’s patients must be free. This was established by a sentence of the Court of Florence which resolved on the appeal of the granddaughter, who is also a lawyer, of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s, who had received an injunction from the RSA facility where her grandmother was hospitalized. The family of the deceased elderly woman, Eda Pirami, received payment orders almost 5 years after her death, which took place in January 2011. The former Asl 11 Empoli asked the heirs to pay the balance of a series of invoices regarding the hospitalization of the woman in the RSA Pablo Neruda of Castelfiorentino. The bill presented was almost 30 thousand euros. But the niece-lawyer, Valentina Bertini (in the photo), together with her colleague Simona Landi, appealed to the Court of Florence asking that the credit be extinguished because the woman, since her insertion into the structure, was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and included in the Cronos project. In other words, it was a person no longer self-sufficient in the terminal state of the progression of the disease and, as such, in need of constant medical care, no longer available at home. The judge, in the first instance, acknowledged that the social health benefits towards the grandmother, who was in an irreversible health condition, had to be paid by the national health system and therefore no final sum had to be requested from the heirs. “I consider it a sentence of civility”, begins the niece-lawyer, who before going to the court had tried to mediate with the health company, but without success. “The court of Florence – continues the lawyer Bertini – reaffirms the consolidated jurisprudential orientation, considering the services provided in the RSA free for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s or degenerative pathology and their families, as they are to be considered health benefits of social relevance. health must never cease to be a sacrosanct fundamental and inviolable right “. This is a sentence that for many families represents an immediate reason for hope.
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