>Residents at a home for the elderly in Cospicua staged a protest outside the care home on Tuesday morning.
>The residents are set to be relocated to different facilities while the property undergoes “extensive” renovation and repair works.
>In a letter sent to the residents on Monday, the residents were told that following a comprehensive analysis of the home, it was decided that the facility should be closed, demolished and rebuilt.
>“The aim is to have a new care home that offers the best facilities and services to its residents,” the letter reads.
>Each resident was asked to indicate three out of a list care homes they wish to be relocated to according to their preference.
>“Whoever is not relocated according to their first preference, will be relocated according to their second or third,” the letter reads.
>“You will also have priority to be relocated to your first preference once a bed becomes available in that particular home.”
>A formal request to transfer residents who need a high level of medical care, to St Vincent de Paule will also be made.
>The residents may choose to go to any of these homes:
>* Dar l-Annunzjata, Tarxien
* Casa Paola, Raħal Ġdid
* Casa Pinto, Qormi
* Vivan, Gżira
* Casa Serena, St Paul’s Bay
* St Thomas Community Living, Marsaskala
* St Elizabeth Home, Rabat
* Dar Saura, Rabat
* Casa Leone, St Julians
* Dar San Gużepp, Fgura
* Ghigo Community Residence, Għaxaq
* Casa San Paolo, St Paul’s Bay
* Mosta Home
* Mtarfa Home
* Zammit Clapp, St Julians
* Central Home, Mosta
>The Cospicua home, which welcomed its first residents in 1999, houses 120 residents. On Tuesday, placards and banners were put up outside the home, some of which read: “The elderly are no disposable” and “We will not leave”. Other placards put up on the barriers outside read: “You don’t care about us” and “You will have to drag our bodies from the rubble.”
>Writing on Facebook, independent candidate Arnold Cassola said: “Only 25 years old… €3 million spent in refurbishing for the past year. Now they are saying there’s structural damage and has to be pulled down.”
>In comments to Newsbook.com.mt, Cassola asked “why were €3 million spent on refurbishment when its a condemned building and needs to be demolished? Secondly, how come a property which was built and opened 25 years ago is experiencing structural damage to its ceilings? Thirdly, if this is true, how come the architect in question has not been sued for professional negligence?”
>“Fourthly, if this problem truly exists, can they lessen the suffering by placing the residents, whom I’ve seen crying, in other facilities around the Cottonera area such as abandoned convents?”
>Cassola observed that it would be better to allow residents to remain in the area instead of seeking to relocate them outside of Cottonera.
>“Handing them an application, asking them to decide where they want to go in 30 days, is a tragedy,” he concluded.
>On Monday, Opposition MP Paula Mifsud Bonnici told Parliament that the residents have been given only two days to relocate. She pointed out that the deadline for the decision of the relocation has been verbally communicated and was not put down on the letter given to the residents, which this newsroom has seen.
>The Cospicua care home underwent a standards assessment just a few years ago, with the government having invested €292,000 to install air conditioning chillers at the home in 2021.
>Net News was at the protest on Tuesday where many voiced their frustration.
Remember that Bormla is the district with the highest proportion of Labour voters. Robert Abela and Joseph Muscat, despite not having any connections to the Cottonera area, stood for every election there as PL leader/Prime Minister because it’s a guaranteed vote and seat in Parliament. The people there are staunchly Labour and quite proud of it.
And this is how they treat their most ardent supporters. They give them 2 days, **2 fucking days** notice, before they chuck them out. Kif qalu dawk li qed jipprotestaw, “Kieku mingħajrna ma jitlawx fil-gvern”.
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>Residents at a home for the elderly in Cospicua staged a protest outside the care home on Tuesday morning.
>The residents are set to be relocated to different facilities while the property undergoes “extensive” renovation and repair works.
>In a letter sent to the residents on Monday, the residents were told that following a comprehensive analysis of the home, it was decided that the facility should be closed, demolished and rebuilt.
>“The aim is to have a new care home that offers the best facilities and services to its residents,” the letter reads.
>Each resident was asked to indicate three out of a list care homes they wish to be relocated to according to their preference.
>“Whoever is not relocated according to their first preference, will be relocated according to their second or third,” the letter reads.
>“You will also have priority to be relocated to your first preference once a bed becomes available in that particular home.”
>A formal request to transfer residents who need a high level of medical care, to St Vincent de Paule will also be made.
>The residents may choose to go to any of these homes:
>* Dar l-Annunzjata, Tarxien
* Casa Paola, Raħal Ġdid
* Casa Pinto, Qormi
* Vivan, Gżira
* Casa Serena, St Paul’s Bay
* St Thomas Community Living, Marsaskala
* St Elizabeth Home, Rabat
* Dar Saura, Rabat
* Casa Leone, St Julians
* Dar San Gużepp, Fgura
* Ghigo Community Residence, Għaxaq
* Casa San Paolo, St Paul’s Bay
* Mosta Home
* Mtarfa Home
* Zammit Clapp, St Julians
* Central Home, Mosta
>The Cospicua home, which welcomed its first residents in 1999, houses 120 residents. On Tuesday, placards and banners were put up outside the home, some of which read: “The elderly are no disposable” and “We will not leave”. Other placards put up on the barriers outside read: “You don’t care about us” and “You will have to drag our bodies from the rubble.”
>Writing on Facebook, independent candidate Arnold Cassola said: “Only 25 years old… €3 million spent in refurbishing for the past year. Now they are saying there’s structural damage and has to be pulled down.”
>In comments to Newsbook.com.mt, Cassola asked “why were €3 million spent on refurbishment when its a condemned building and needs to be demolished? Secondly, how come a property which was built and opened 25 years ago is experiencing structural damage to its ceilings? Thirdly, if this is true, how come the architect in question has not been sued for professional negligence?”
>“Fourthly, if this problem truly exists, can they lessen the suffering by placing the residents, whom I’ve seen crying, in other facilities around the Cottonera area such as abandoned convents?”
>Cassola observed that it would be better to allow residents to remain in the area instead of seeking to relocate them outside of Cottonera.
>“Handing them an application, asking them to decide where they want to go in 30 days, is a tragedy,” he concluded.
>On Monday, Opposition MP Paula Mifsud Bonnici told Parliament that the residents have been given only two days to relocate. She pointed out that the deadline for the decision of the relocation has been verbally communicated and was not put down on the letter given to the residents, which this newsroom has seen.
>The Cospicua care home underwent a standards assessment just a few years ago, with the government having invested €292,000 to install air conditioning chillers at the home in 2021.
>Net News was at the protest on Tuesday where many voiced their frustration.
Remember that Bormla is the district with the highest proportion of Labour voters. Robert Abela and Joseph Muscat, despite not having any connections to the Cottonera area, stood for every election there as PL leader/Prime Minister because it’s a guaranteed vote and seat in Parliament. The people there are staunchly Labour and quite proud of it.
And this is how they treat their most ardent supporters. They give them 2 days, **2 fucking days** notice, before they chuck them out. Kif qalu dawk li qed jipprotestaw, “Kieku mingħajrna ma jitlawx fil-gvern”.