Sold off at the symbolic price of one euro each, the infamous wheelchairs purchased by the State for schools during the Covid pandemic are back to life. Most schools considered them inadequate and inconvenient for teaching activities, sending them back to the sender.
Today, they lie mainly in the warehouses of Municipalities and Provinces. However, they are back in the news because a small town in the Padua area, Bagnoli di Sopra, has decided to purchase a hundred of them, at the price of 1 euro each. "With this purchase - he added - we reach 400 seats. If they had been bought new, we would have spent much more," said the mayor. Four years ago, the chairs with wheels and shelves cost around 150 euros each. They are new chairs, never used, certified, and certainly suitable for our purpose. "They are new chairs, never used, certified, and certainly suitable for our purpose," said the town's mayor, Roberto Milan, who was looking for seats to equip a large meeting room inside the former San Siro military base.