The Day Center for the Disabled in Via Sacro Cuore in Modica is still closed. The work was due to be completed in December 2023.
It was early September when we raised the issue. In fact, at the beginning of August, the users of the day center were forced to move from one location to another because the historic one had been closed for renovation works (read here)
However, judging by the photos we have taken in recent days, the work is not yet finished.
Nine months to fix a fundamental structure for those who use it and who in the meantime have been tossed from one place to another.
In the end, the choice fell on the premises of the Antoniano Auditorium in Modica, also in Via Sacro Cuore, which houses both the center for the elderly and the Giovanni XXIII nursery school.
A choice that should have been temporary, as reassured by the social services councilor Chiara Facello, who we contact, had declared “We will do everything so as not to create inefficiencies by maintaining the same hours and also trying to get the canteen started. We ask families for a little patience because eventually they will return to their renovated home ready to welcome them as they deserve.”
But perhaps the patience was too much given that the whole winter has passed and there is still no question of returning to the facility.
Among other things, the delivery of the works, as can also be seen from the table placed at the entrance to the gate, was supposed to be by 6 December 2023 but perhaps they should have put 6 December 2024 even if at this rate perhaps the structure will not be ready even then .
Furthermore, the choice of the Antoniano was not even that happy given that the inconveniences were quite high as the structure was not suitable for this purpose. But we adapted thinking that it would be a matter of months, not years.
We don’t know what caused the delays, let’s just hope that the money needed to complete the structure didn’t run out prematurely, or was it allocated to something else, perhaps to pay the centre’s operators?
Not even that since they too have to receive numerous monthly payments in arrears.
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