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"One washed it, the other checked its pockets"/ Elderly people are being robbed in nursing homes. Testimonies: They don't serve us without paying. The former director beat me up!
2025-07-17 23:30:46 / AKTUALITET
Investigative show Vetting, News24
Corruption within residential centers for the elderly
Elderly people who have lost all hope and have only residential centers as a solution are often forced to pay bribes to employees to receive the service.
"And where there should be social protection, that is, in the nursing home, problems with corruption by bureaucrats appear, it is a violation that requires increased attention, since we cannot make legal adjustments to enter the European Union, that is, Chapter 19, but legal adjustments must coincide with realizations and direct emissions in increasing funds and no longer in abusing funds," said Romina Radoshiq.
In the case of residential centers in Poliçan and Tirana, the elderly indicate that without paying bribes, they do not receive proper service from the institution's employees. In Poliçan, one of the elderly indicates that the employees took his colleague's money by "putting" his hands in his pockets.
"They told me, he took so much money from me."
"They washed the old man, one washed him, the other checked his pockets to see how much money he had. She had the full power of her husband in Poliçan, Polic, and she did as she pleased. Teuta Guri. The asylum seekers themselves said so. If he took the money, he took so much money from us.
"There was a cleaner, she would take the money, she would steal, she and 2-3 others," says an elderly person from the Poliçan asylum.
There are also cases of bribery in the "Ali Demi" nursing home, the employees do not provide the proper service if you do not give them money, those who pay into their pockets receive better service than those who do not pay a penny.
"I have no pension at all, I have 125 thousand, 50 is kept by the asylum, 70 I get"
"A lot of money was stolen here."
"They don't ask for it directly, but they ask you to not serve, you're forced to give money, you understand?"
"I don't give them. Sometimes they ask for a can. Come on, a can is nothing, a can worth 1,000 lek," said the old man.
"These sanitation workers, this Linda, are stealing my money," said the elderly man from Kavaja.
There is a fear within nursing homes to complain and demand their rights. Elderly people often remain silent, not complaining about the lack of service and the undignified treatment of these people whose only hope is the nursing home. Otherwise, they risk living under bridges, on the streets and in abandoned buildings.
"Now we're talking together, I don't want them to know that we're talking together, because you know what the director did to me? She's taking me out of the asylum!"
The director has been retired for 4 years and has not left, in the state, you reach retirement age, leave, you have to leave, the law does not allow you. Reach retirement age, leave, I will leave the place for someone else.
"Grand corruption, grand corruption"
"She takes them. She's in the office, the person herself, the director closes the door and takes the money, there's no camera. Open the door and leave," the elderly man said. Abusive treatment, the unimaginable that happens.
There are internal reports that show cases where elderly people have been tied to beds to avoid problems.
In some asylums, sleeping pills are used as a “solution” to manage problematic behaviors, instead of professional treatment. This is inhumane treatment and, in essence, institutional abuse.
Scandal in the Kavaja Asylum, the former Director used violence
One of the elderly centers that has had problems with violence and not only, is the asylum in Kavaja. One of the residents of this asylum has told "Vetting" that the former director of the asylum slapped the elderly, a violation that is punishable by law. From an institution that should offer social protection and security to the most vulnerable, it risks turning into a serious health concern.
The man in the blue shirt on the chair : "Dennis (the former director of the asylum) beat me, Visi, Qife's kid shot me in the eye here."
Journalist : Who is he? Does he work here?
The man in the blue shirt on the chair : He was the director here but he left. Denis Avriku…
The man in the blue shirt on the chair: What the hell, man, why did you come to the office...
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