Lida Moniava: “We are waiting for changes”

“I read in the news that Moscow plans to spend 6 billion rubles on lighting trees. And they say they have already spent 300 million on artistic lighting of buildings on the Boulevard Ring, 470 million on lighting lawns and trees at MKAD interchanges, etc.” - the deputy director of the Children's Hospice "House with a Lighthouse" writes on his Facebook page.

"Is this normal? In a city where terminally ill children still do not receive vital medical equipment at home, where a children's hospice still operates on donations from ordinary people without any financial support from the state, and even people have to buy ventilators With their own money, the city leadership distributes precious millions to illuminate trees and buildings. Is this normal?

I know everything - that the current government of Moscow is much better than it could be, that everyone is trying, and they think and care about manual palliative care, and the law on providing ventilators for Muscovites has been written, it’s just that everything is very complicated, it takes a long time, there is no money , and in the regions everything is a hundred times worse, etc.

We understand everything, so for now we take on part of the state’s worries, we buy ventilators with charitable money, we hire doctors, but we are WAITING FOR CHANGE. And then we open the news and see that while terminally ill children are waiting, 6 billion are being distributed to illuminate trees?!”