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Antanas Damulis, director of the Šilalė District Hospital, died earlier than the new ones from COVID-19. Although the country is under quarantine and routine funerals should not take place, it appears that security requirements have not been met this time.
Hundreds of people are said to have gathered to accompany the hospital directors, and some priests even attended the funeral.
200 people attended the funeral
The first information about a possible violation of quarantine conditions was shared by policy reviewer Rimvydas Valatka. Savo Facebook In the record, the critic says he received a call from a person who had attended that funeral.
“In Šilala, you in my Šilala, who are you with and where are you going?
A man from Šilalė just called. He asks why no one wrote about the fact that the funeral of the Šilalė District Hospital, a local Labor Party actor, who died of coronavirus before New Year’s Eve, was as massive as in pre-Covidean times. The coffin was brought to the church. Almost 200 people accompanied the deceased in the cemetery and elsewhere, and then two priests made their way to the coffin. I say it can’t be, because only 10 people are allowed to say goodbye to the deceased, etc. He says I saw the column myself.
I didn’t really find a description of the funeral anywhere. I would not like to be assigned to those who have been informed and kept quiet. But I also don’t want to believe that such violations are possible. I ask, maybe someone could deny such slander, which probably has not caught on to me? Or maybe a special permission was obtained from the government, and everything here zakonno, as with vaccinations after the blat? Write how it was really there and we put a point.
PS: I just got a call from the LRT radio. The journalists discovered that everything was as my informant said. Oh tempora, oh mores!
Now it is a question for the police and military police: if you are catching children descending from a sled, how have you not seen such a solemn mass funeral during the quarantine? And here they are the same and even softer? #policija #karopolicija “, writes R. Valatka on the social network.
The mayor did not attend the funeral
Journalists on the tv3.lt portal contacted the mayor of the Šilalė district, Algirdas Meiženis. The politician confirmed that he had said goodbye to the director of the deceased hospital, but could not say anything about the number of people in them. As the mayor says, he did not attend the funeral itself and that only went to the body.
“The municipality did not participate, I was partially present, it would be easier for me to say about myself. I brought flowers, a candle, an honor, etc. I waited in line not to break procedures, I was not in the coffin for 10-15 minutes. I didn’t go to the cemetery and the paperwork was completed, ”says A. Meiženis.
But soon during the conversation, the mayor begins to use the plural form.
“I was not at that funeral, I did not go to the graves, we took the flowers, the director of the administration was there, some of those people there. Because we had to queue, we waited, ”says the mayor.
After clarifying who the mayor went to the funeral with, A. Meiženis replied that one: “I went alone to pay tribute, but I was also seen by the director of the administration.”
The mayor says he saw about 10 people inside the funeral home.
The funeral home belongs to the municipality
After contacting the UAB Gedmina, a municipal company that organized the body of the director of Šilalė, its manager Donatas Grigalis affirms that all the requirements set by the Government were met during the body.
“On the first day, I can be personally responsible for ensuring that, until our working hours were in person, the staff and I personally monitored the flow of people who came to fire us. In the corridor we strictly follow the requirements of the Ministry of Health, that is, ten people in the corridor, plus the closest relatives ”, comments D. Grigalis.
The director of the company says that if there were more than ten people inside, he would personally ask for them outside.
D. Grigalis said the newly arrived relatives of A. Damulis were informed of the quarantine conditions and were obliged to comply with them.
The director of the company says that these funerals were being prepared and an influx of people was expected.
“Comparing the eternal rest of Antanas Damulis, his notoriety and influence in Šilalė, there were really not as many people as I expected,” says D. Grigalis.
By the time the deceased had to be escorted, more people gathered near the funeral home. As Gregali says, the crowd lined up outside, several people were able to enter the hall. Grigalis says he did not count everyone gathered outside, but estimates that about 80 people attended the funeral.
D. Grigalis also says that the National Center for Public Health was consulted during the organization of the march, and was assured that the march could take place in accordance with the requirements.
“I heard speeches, I’m not sure they went to mass and then to the cemetery. Perhaps more people gathered for the mass and the cemetery, who wanted to say goodbye, but did not want to go to the funeral home knowing the rules ”, says D. Grigalis.
The funeral director also says he heard that more than two priests attended the funeral.
Three priests attended the funeral
Šilalė St. Saulius Katkus, pastor of the Franciscan parish in Assisi, says on tv3.lt that 200 people did not attend the funeral. According to the pastor, this simply would not fit the church.
However, the parish priest confirms the speeches that several priests attended the mass. There are three priests in Šilalė and they all attended the funeral.
“One was sitting in the auditorium, the others were at the altar,” says S. Katkus.
When asked why the funeral of the director of the Šilal una Hospital was an exception and a regular funeral was held, the pastor says relatives have asked for it.
“This man was an active member of the church, singing in the choir. And, of course, loved ones wanted to do it. There is such an unwritten rule that many people want as much respect and common prayer as possible at these funerals, ”says S. Katkus.
The portal tv3.lt recalls that the quarantine regime is currently in force in the country. All the requirements are given in the following illustration.
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