Šimonytė on NVSC’s calculated death: I don’t know if it can compromise even more

In response to the words of Lukas Savickas, an advisor to former Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, the prime minister stressed that she did not want to criticize the previous government’s decisions.

“I would not even want to discuss with the previous government about the decisions that are being made, and I did not. Perhaps I just liked to remove the Seimas less from certain episodes,” said the Prime Minister.

He said the most important thing to keep in mind was that a summer off was the reason the situation is now threatening.

“That summer episode has contributed a lot to what we have now. The government released the quarantine as soon as it could. I also have no major complaints about this. But all that summer, people could act like people, if they wanted to celebrate, they celebrated and they celebrated. But the government had to take the fall very seriously, there were threatening warnings and they turned out to be true, ”said the prime minister.

I. Šimonytė assessed these decisions of the previous government as “very precious time”.
The head of the government I. Šimonytė says he cannot imagine that the National Center for Public Health (NVSC) could compromise even more. Their mistakes directly commit the state.

“But the fact that it takes 9 months of crisis to discover that some NVSCs cannot take the death statistics from Esveikatos.lt is a parody of that life. Completely stupid bottlenecks are formed and the subsequent emergence of some knowledge of the death mismatch compromises the State. That institution is already there, empty, I don’t know if it can compromise even more, ”said the Prime Minister.

We remind you that the Minister of Health Arūnas Dulkys instructed the head of the NVSC to explain in writing the discrepancies in the statistics of deaths from coronavirus. Prime Minister I. Šimonytė was also criticized several times by R. Petraičius.

How to trust?

Prime Minister I. Šimonytė pointed out that, although the government is very willing and expects public trust in the government itself, or in others, it does not trust the people.

“We hope that people trust the government, each other. But very often there is not enough trust on the part of decision makers,” he emphasized.

The prime minister said she noted that she often receives questions about people not following the rules.

“All I have is a word, a request, an example, maybe help from some kind of institution. And hopefully people will make those decisions in the expected direction. That should be the provision a priori“She explained.

I. Šimonytė stated that building trust could be based on open data, a foundation that everyone should have.

“How can we build trust: Data and facts can help us a lot. If we cannot agree on interpretation and evaluation, can we agree that 3 is 3? It is the transparency of the data, the ability to see the same, that is very important, “he explained.

Looking ahead, we will have to deal with other issues after the coronavirus crisis has passed.

“It will be on the agenda of all the governments of the world in the near future. The economy will somehow lick its wounds, the emotional and mental state of the people will be where the consequences will be very long-lasting,” said the Prime Minister.

He said that then it would be possible to take advantage of the good example of other countries.

Major problem

L. Savickas, a member of the Seimas and former adviser to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, said in the discussion that a trend can be seen that those countries that successfully faced the first wave of coronavirus lowered restrictions in the summer.

“The work and the investigation itself cover the period in which the outgoing government was operational and was responsible for crisis management. (…) Regarding the management of the health crisis, I think the correct observations have been made. Countries that have shown successful first wave management tended to loosen regulation further in the summer. This also indicates the attempt of the outgoing government to regulate life in a more flexible way, avoiding excessive restrictions, ”said L. Savickas, former member of the Government.

“Seeing that the situation continued to deteriorate, it was necessary to return to stricter regulations, which was done,” Seimas member L. Savickas noted in the discussion.

He said the coronavirus crisis had exposed the vulnerabilities of the public sector.

“Here we inevitably see the need for a centralized response, it allows for quick and decisive decisions, we need to further develop that competition. The weakness – weak competition from the public sector – intolerance of mistakes and lack of leadership in the public sector – it became apparent,

Therefore, according to the participant in the discussion, it is necessary to strengthen the capacity and capacity of the public sector.

“Strengthening the capacity of the state in the public sector comes first. As much as we have invested in the public sector over 30 years, we have seen that response. When the crisis hit, we turned to the civil service and civil servant and expected billions of funds and tools to be created overnight. But we did not create such competitions, “he said.

There were signs, there was no reaction

During the discussion, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys pointed out that the reaction to the pandemic and its handling may have stalled, because while certain signals were sent, the courage to prepare for a crisis situation, it was not expected that a situation would actually occur. crisis of this magnitude.

“It’s no secret – we can really find both five years ago and three years ago the most diverse public audits and other evaluations and reports that sent signals to our country about all kinds of problems by looking at various reserves, not just monetary resources, but different ones. Provisioning We have all participated in various practical trainings, we know how practical trainings are carried out in various crisis situations.

This is the long period in which Lithuania was really among the safest countries in the world according to various studies and our mind did not give up the belief that we must seriously prepare, plan something, do something, because within that true inner belief that something it may be and may be necessary, we all missed it and we should draw conclusions from it, ”said A. Dulkys.