A 95-year-old woman has nominated the Lecce Local Health Authority as universal heir, leaving 3 million euros to be allocated to the construction of a healthcare facility in the area. With that money, the ASL will create the high-tech and robotic district rehabilitation center in Maglie.
A 95-year-old woman has decided to leave 3 million euros in inheritance to the ASL of Lecce for the construction of a care and assistance facility in the municipality of Maglie (Lecce). The woman passed away in 2019 and in her will, drawn up in 2009, had indicated the health company as his universal heir and had asked for the money to be used for the construction of a healthcare facility and assistance to be entitled to “Carrapa Paolo and sisters”.
Now the ASL of Lecce has approved the project for the destination of the inheritance to the new project. With the 3 million euros left as an inheritance by the elderly woman, the “High-tech and robotics district rehabilitation center of Maglie” will be built. The rehabilitation center will be located at ground floor of the Maglie territorial assistance center (former hospital) and will be equipped with cutting-edge equipment at the service of rehabilitation medicine.
The premises will be completely renovated and will also house a 100 square meter gym, two medical offices and three rooms dedicated to electromyographic and ultrasound diagnostics as well as neurocognitive and speech therapy rehabilitation. New generation and high-tech robotic equipment will be acquired that will allow increase the intensity of treatments and create personalized protocols for patients with serious motor-disabling pathologies.
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The ASL underlined that the legacy of Mrs. Vita Carrapa was allocated to the district rehabilitation center with high robotic technology because, responding to the testamentary provisions of 95, it wanted to provide Maglie and the South Salento with a modern and qualified rehabilitation center of reference which will have a very large impact on the territory.
“This more concrete and visible path was chosen over the idea, although tested, of the possibility that the bequest could be used to build the hospital in South Salento – the ASL underlined -. The infrastructure, while remaining in the regional planning, requires much larger sums”.
