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“It is enough to bribe people, it is not necessary. Just choice, so is bribery forever, giving bribes. People our age are not used to this. I don’t think they are happy. Maybe they will rejoice with each other. another, but it will be better for you, but you will not beg. It seems to me that vaccination is necessary, that people in government, specialists should be listened to and family doctors should be the most consulted, “G. Makarevičienė told the portal tv3.lt.
According to her, the elderly need communication and explanations about the benefits of vaccines. According to G. Makarevičienė, such communication was necessary as soon as the vaccines appeared. Now, in his opinion, we are chasing a train.
“I drive through the neighborhoods because now everything has relaxed, so I talk to people, urging them on. I listen to everything. Unheard of speeches. I do not collect or use gossip. But it seems to me that this measure is nothing like anyone, but for the majority here there will be complete, complete discrimination. You need to work differently. After all, there are elders, they know the people, they know them. Big cities, this is not a problem here, the problem is in remote areas, in distant towns, where people are left alone, the children have left, and they have heard what the grandmother said there. We need to talk to these people, ”says the director of the Lithuanian Association of the Elderly.
According to her, the vaccines should reach the people, not the elderly, they should go to the district centers for vaccination, because it is simply difficult for them: “One with a stick, the other does not drink, the third does not listen. And they come to that bus, which passes once a week, for two kilometers, for three, for five and for ten. I do not understand why it is possible to get everyone to vote in elections, to get caught in every corner, and not here. Take that vaccine home with an authorized person, with representatives of the community, a beloved postman. Go people, not people have to go. “
G. Makarevičienė recalled that there were actions when people who had been vaccinated in Palanga were treated with zeppelins, that people did not react very positively.
“He walks in two and says, ‘I’m upset, I didn’t swallow that zeppelin, I spat it out when I left. “Well, that’s what we came here for,” recalled the interlocutor.
The president of the Lithuanian Association of the Elderly says that Lithuanian pensioners evaluate positively the indexation of old-age pensions, direct communication, attention to the problems of the elderly, but not bribery.
“It just came to our notice then. There is no need to appear so arrogant, we are not rubbish, we have been working our whole lives. And what we have created is enjoyed by all. Even once a year, some of our authorities are lazy to say the word, lazy to attend events. Perhaps their parents did not learn, perhaps the family did not respect the elderly … “, G. Makarevičienė was surprised.
The lump sum benefit was proposed by the Ministry of Social Security and Labor, which registered the relevant bill. It is estimated that if people were vaccinated, 271,900 people could receive the benefit.
In Lithuania, the vaccination rate of the elderly is far behind other European Union countries, especially the Scandinavian countries, while COVID-19 is very dangerous for the elderly and people with comorbidities. In Lithuania, coronavirus deaths are reported daily and most deaths are not vaccinated.
President Gitanas Nausėda recently criticized Health Minister Arūnas Dulkis for insufficient vaccination coverage for the elderly, but Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said the poor vaccines were also influenced by some politicians who acted against the government. He acknowledged that the pandemic situation was bad, but did not believe that a Minister of Health, A. Dulkys, should be responsible for it.
The idea of paying a vaccine benefit for the elderly was proposed a little earlier by politicians from the Lithuanian Union of Greens and Peasants, the former Minister of Health Aurelijus Veryga.
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