senior citizens refusing vaccines to be picked by balinese police

The Gianyar Police Department has chosen to use a police bus to transport scores of unvaccinated older residents in Gianyar.

Kompol I Nyoman Wirajaya, Deputy Chief of the Gianyar Police Department, revealed that he has sent his officers to begin collecting up hundreds of senior persons in Gianyar who are still unwilling to obtain the Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday (28/9). “According to our research, many of Gianyar's senior citizens were still unvaccinated. So we decided to pick them up from their houses and transport them to vaccination sites using our bus.” According to Kompol Wirajaya.

Kompol Wirajaya also acknowledged that this program was more effective in teaching the public about the importance of the Covid-19 immunization. Meanwhile, I Gusti Ngurah Sarjana, the official from Keramas Village Gianyar, revealed that he has been struggling to ensure the senior residents in his area that the vaccine is safe. “Prior to this initiative, we had a total of 160 unvaccinated senior individuals, but we are grateful to the police for successfully picking them up to obtain the Covid-19 vaccine.” Sarjana explained.

Despite being successfully transported to vaccination sites, some older individuals were not vaccinated owing to physical difficulties, and they were obliged to wait until they recovered from their ailments. “We have deployed all of our officers in Gianyar to help this vaccination program in order to attain herd immunity in our area in the near future.” Kompol Wirajaya concluded.