{"id":116744,"date":"2021-08-03T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116744"},"modified":"2021-08-03T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T23:28:35","slug":"why-this-punishment-for-our-senior-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/03\/why-this-punishment-for-our-senior-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this punishment for our senior citizens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Dr.Reffai Dehiwala<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Why is that the\ncitizens are expected to stand in mile long queues whiel waiting for the\nvaccination? Aren\u2019t we civilized enough to have better system for these people.\nSpecially since the army, well trained in discipline is supervising the project\nand most fo the people standing in the hot sun, and moving at snail pace are\nour senior citizens? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went for my\nsecond injection at Werahara Army hospital. I found the arrangement very well\nplanned and executed methodically, by ample number of army officers attending,\n&nbsp;except that \u2013 the people were standing in a queue in hot sun, while there\nwere many tents put up which were not utilized and there were many chairs which\nwere not utilized at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We often see\nqueues of people. old and young, sick or with walkers, standing for miles and\nmiles, waiting for this jab, and no one seems to mind or think better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why not follow\na system where \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\nPeople are given numbers as they come and asked to sit down on chairs\nunder the tents <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\nIf they are to be informed by SMS, give them a particular time to come\nin batches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\nAllow people to send someone and get a number for a particular time\naccording to their convenience <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\nOnce they are seated, call them one by one by the numbers and give the\ninjections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\nPeople should not be asked to walk far soon after the injection to reach\nthe observation tent. They may have a reaction on the way to the tent. Ideally\nthe observation tent must be close ot the injection site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are living in this 21<sup>st<\/sup>\ncentury and we are still behaving like cattle, uneducated, uncivilized people\nand the worst thing is, We, the citizens just take it without thinking or\nprotesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I pointed out this to the officers at Werahara, they\nsaid, Good idea but still carried on the same way letting old people to stand\nin queues for a long distance and move at snail\u2019s pace.- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Dr.Reffai&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.Reffai Dehiwala Why is that the citizens are expected to stand in mile long queues whiel waiting for the vaccination? Aren\u2019t we civilized enough to have better system for these people. Specially since the army, well trained in discipline is supervising the project and most fo the people standing in the hot sun, and moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}