Stopped in warehouses for years, the wheelchairs purchased by the State for schools during the Covid pandemic to ensure distancing were sold off at the symbolic price of one euro - and not for the purpose for which they were designed.

Most institutes considered them inadequate and uncomfortable for teaching activities. So today they lie unused in the warehouses of municipalities and provinces .

Now a small town in the Padua area, Bagnoli di Sopra , has decided to purchase a hundred of them at the price of one euro each , accepting the offer of the Province of Padua, which had 600 in its warehouses.

«They are new chairs, never used, certified, and certainly suitable for our purpose» the mayor of Bagnoli, Roberto Milan, told 'Mattino di Padova', who was looking for seats to equip a large meeting room inside the former base military of San Siro. «With this purchase - he added - we will reach 400 seats. If they had been bought new we would have spent much more." Four years ago the chairs with wheels and shelf cost around 150 euros each.

(Unioneonline/L)