NRC: Socially vulnerable categories generally informed about KOVID-19

People from Kumanovo are generally informed about Kovid-19, they are satisfied with the work of the doctors from the Kumanovo General Hospital, and they expressed dissatisfaction with the family doctors who provided services by phone at the beginning of the pandemic, according to research by the National Roma Centrum (NRC).

People from Kumanovo are generally informed about Kovid-19, they are satisfied with the work of the doctors from the Kumanovo General Hospital, and they expressed dissatisfaction with the family doctors who provided services by phone at the beginning of the pandemic, according to research by the National Roma Centrum (NRC).
The Executive Director of NRC, Ashmet Elezovski at today’s press conference pointed out that the research covered socially vulnerable categories within the project “Let’s continue living”, supported by the Government. Of those surveyed, the biggest problem was reported by people who did not have a document who could not receive health care. More than half received the vaccine, 49 percent were not vaccinated.
– At the beginning, there was greater dissatisfaction, especially from the family doctors who did not receive the patients in the surgeries. We think that this is due to insufficient organization, because we had positive examples. In general, the people of Kumanovo are satisfied with the care and assistance provided by the Kumanovo doctors from the general hospital, says Elezovski.The respondents showed a high degree of awareness about the disease, but also about the effectiveness of the vaccines, although some, as Elezovski explained, fell under the influence of misinformation that spread with the same speed as the virus.
– We want to point out that we need to be brave, to regain the confidence to look at life positively and we just need to think that we need to continue living, even though we are scared every day, there is a growing poverty, vaccinations, medicines that need to be said, preventive examinations at family doctors, with the support of the Government we conducted an activity that seriously encouraged us how to reach the poorest citizens and how to inform them to prevent themselves from this virus, said Elezovski.
The survey included 630 respondents. Interestingly, the most vulnerable living in substandard conditions had Covid-19 antibodies.”The message of NRC to political representatives is that people have the right to life and they do not deserve to be puppets of the interests of individuals or the policies of certain people who are involved in politics while they are alive. It is important that health care is available to all,” he said. Elezovski.