Overview

• In Rio’s Brás de Pina, the 22ª DP arrested the owner of a clandestine asilo and city inspectors interdicted the site following a reported death.
• The deceased woman’s body was sent to the IML for examination, and police said initial information points to a sudden illness pending the forensic report.
• Inspectors cited insalubrious conditions, no operating license, lack of qualified staff, and food shortages, with many residents sleeping on improvised sofas; 12 elderly people were moved to municipal shelters.
• In Curitiba a day earlier, a man and a woman who ran a care home in Hauer were arrested on suspicion of mistreatment and crimes against public health, and the facility was shut down.
• Curitiba inspectors found pervasive neglect including a strong urine odor, expired and putrefying food, expired medicines stored with food, and diabetics given sweetened drinks; police noted prior sanitary and fire citations and are probing a second suspected clandestine site.