Adults over 80 years old watched short films by Charles Chaplin while they waited to be vaccinated against the coronavirus at the old Lumiere Cinema in Rosario, now converted into a vaccination center, which 50 years ago already offered the same screenings.
“The protocol of the Sputnik V vaccine indicates a 30-minute wait after its application to rule out unwanted effects, it is in that wait that we decided to make projections taking advantage of the Lumiere Cinema screen,” told Télam, the person in charge of the campaign of vaccination in Rosario, Nestor Galvan.
“After much debate, we decided to use this cultural center and cinema to apply vaccines to get closer to the residents of each area of Rosario,” he said.
Galván stressed that “many of the grandparents who come to get vaccinated enjoyed Chaplin in his splendor in this same cinema that today is showing them those films from his youth”.
In that sense, he pointed out that it is about “a pampering to people who come to be vaccinated with all the anxiety and all the fears, and find humorous films to decompress the situation.”
“They live it very excited and grateful, they come with joy and are thanking the staff who serve them,” he remarked.
Inside the Cine Lumiere Cultural Center there are four vaccination posts with the capacity to immunize about 360 people over 80 years old per day.
Since its opening, last Friday, 900 doses were inoculated, taking into account the percentage of absenteeism that reached 5 percent, “a very low value for being older adults,” Galván indicated.
“It is not easy to transform a cinema into a vaccination center, starting with internet connectivity, furniture for the stalls, signage, ventilation works so that there is no danger of contagion and other works to achieve distancing during the wait,” he said.
“In addition, it is impossible for only the Health sector to be in charge of this pandemic situation, which is why everyone contributes, in this case the participation of the Culture area of the municipality is very strong,” he specified.
The Cine Lumiere is an old 400-seat movie theater born in the 1950s that was recovered by the municipality of Rosario in 1993 and since then has hosted cultural workshops and art exhibitions, in addition to maintaining its traditional Saturday screenings for the northern district of the city. (Télam)
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