REGGIO EMILIA – The complaint was presented to carabinieri on the same day it kicked off employment. For anyone who arbitrarily invades another person’s building, the penal code provides for a sentence from one to three years. Those who can be prosecuted for illegal occupation are activists of the Aq16 Laboratory. Through a note the Local Health Authority says that the premises must be “immediately released”underlining its unusability and the absence of both safety conditions and utilities such as water and electricity.
Prevent the building from becoming the subject of real estate speculation. The occupants are asking for this, suggesting an intervention capable of stemming the housing emergency.
They have always had a public function the former polyclinics in viale Monte San Michelebuilt in 1952, more than seventy years ago. The current sales notice published by the ASL, expiring next Tuesday, is the second and has a starting bid of one million and 482 thousand euros. The amount is discounted by 10% compared to that of the first attempted sale, which was unsuccessful. The proceeds will be used for the construction of Mire, the Maternal and Child hospital in Reggio, as envisaged by the healthcare company’s investment plan. According to the general urban plan, the building, three floors high, will be demolished and rebuilt. What arises will be intended for both functions residential That commercial, with services of interest to the community. As for housing, a part will be subsidized housing, i.e. aimed at low-income families.
In July 2021, the clinics closed their doors completely, after a gradual emptying process that lasted four years. The dental services were the first to move, in via delle Ortolane, into spaces redeveloped by the Local Health Authority. In the Nord health house, in via Gramsci, the specialties related to ophthalmology had instead been moved, while prosthetic assistance, to give another example, moved to Santa Maria, in the H building. They then changed from allergology to rheumatology, passing through neurology and pulmonology, the final specialties ad Albinea, therefore out of common. Activities that will return in the summer finally, as had been promised, in the city, at the Casa della Salute Ovest in via Brigata Reggiowhere performances once held in viale Monte San Michele have immediately found space and where the usable surface area is about to be doubled, thanks to the rooms created on the upper floor, which will be completed in the coming weeks.
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