Black mold and poor nutrition. Karelian authorities will try to repair the residential care facility after a deputy's complaints.
Karelian authorities will request federal subsidies for the renovation of the Medvezhyegorsk Psychoneurological Boarding School. A few days earlier, a member of the Legislative Assembly spoke about the conditions at the boarding school. Inna Boluchevskaya.
"I won't list the huge list of problems, just look at the photos... It's scary to think what would happen if an emergency occurred. The courage of those working here is enviable."- let me down She is the result of her visit.
As of 2023 in Russian regions worked 530 PNI, in which they were located 157 000 peopleMost often, these are people with mental disabilities who have nowhere else to live.
Boluchevskaya's photos show peeling exterior and interior walls, leaky doors, disrepairing bathrooms, overcrowded rooms (seven people each), black mold, and poor food. Residents pay 70% of their social pensions and benefits for these "amenities."
There are boarding schools in Medvezhyegorsk 552 person, 29 of whom are "children of war," and 78 are bedridden. The boarding school has never undergone major renovations, even though one building was constructed in 1969 and the other in 1980.
to the Ministry of Social Protection of the Republic after the photos appeared reported: funds have already been allocated from the budget for the preparation of a project for the renovation of the 2nd building.
Human rights activist Nyuta Federmesser called Russian residential institutions "a Gulag for the elderly and disabled." Residents of residential institutions deprived right forced to live without basic amenities, their attract to unpaid forced labor, and it is practically impossible to get out of such boarding schools impossible.
Photo: Inna Boluchevskaya
