Russia shocked as volunteers report grim facts about nursing home
Published: 28 October, 2009, 17:02
Edited: 30 October, 2009, 10:19
The director of a nursing home for the elderly in northwest Russia has been fired after a group of volunteers caused public outcry with their report about the terrible conditions in which patients had to live.
Nadia , don't bring the nationality into this ...
This article could have just as easily been written about bad nursing homes in the United States. There are a lot of terrible nursing homes here and some of the owners make huge profits by providing lousy care. Some of the owners are quite wealthy so a lot of the abuse never comes to light. America pretends to care for the elderly, but their heart is with the billionaire thieves on wall street. The government denied the old aged people their little social security raise for next year. They had billions but neglected the old people because they know the old people will probably forget before the congressional elections. They could come up with a small {token} bribe for the old people's vote just before the congressional elections because they like living the good life in congress.
I have read almost all 2000 comments to this livejournal's post. If somebody wants, you could read it English with google-translator and see those terrible pictures. This translation isn't brilliant, of course, but is good enough for understanding. http://o-liska.livejournal.com/26814.html?page=29#comments Read it, please, improve translation and send everywhere, to blogs, internet and paper media all over the world. Name and shame Russian bastards, who do this to old people. Maybe that helps to improve this outrageous situation with elderly care in Russia, where is normal, when old folk has bath once in week, who lies in bed without pads on rubber materess for months, who have bed sored 10 cm deep...