– First, a warm-up question – was it difficult to decide? Because the Minister of Health’s chair in Lithuania is quite hot.
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– Yes, the decision is complex. One thing is that the minister’s position itself is one of the hotter ones, no matter which ministry you are in. When I was still in Saulius Skvernelis’s Government, we used to laugh that we were all sitting in a circle, but someone’s chair was on fire at that moment. Then everyone else could rest and do their work, because work gets done when the chair isn’t burning.
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Yes, the decision to become a minister, the decision to become the Minister of Health – these are truly not easy decisions. In the coalition puzzles, the Ministry of Health was offered to us, and the community, in deciding, saw me as a candidate – because I have experience, because I come from a related field, because my pre-political career was in the service sector.
