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Posadas Shuts Illegal Nursing Home, Launches Theft Investigation

Officials urged families to verify licenses, citing only six authorized eldercare facilities in Posadas.

Overview

  • A neighbor's January 19 complaint to Comisaría 15ª sparked the intervention after an elderly person fled the house seeking help and reporting thefts.
  • Municipal inspectors and police found the San Isidro residence operating without authorization or health records and lacking basic safety, hygiene and medical provisions.
  • Health official Sebastián Báez reported no fridge or medicine kit, poor ventilation, inadequate bathrooms and no emergency exits at the site.
  • Judge Ricardo Balor ordered immediate closure and reallocation of five residents, with three returned to relatives and two transferred to the Geriátrico Público de Miguel Lanús.
  • The case remains under judicial review for alleged theft of residents’ money and administrative responsibility, despite the operator’s claim of pending licensing and fumigation certificates.