Vadodara: Teams of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) are facing difficulties in some areas while collecting details of people who have to be given Covid-19 vaccines on priority. This has come as a surprise as most had hoped that people would be keen to give required details.
Sources said that the problem was acute in pockets of the minority community.
The teams of the civic body have visited some of these areas to collect details of persons who are over 50 years and those who have health conditions or co-morbidities and need a vaccine on priority. “It is true that in some areas people are not willing to part with details. Since this is a voluntary exercise, we cannot force people into giving us the details too,” said VMC’s medical officer (health) Dr Devesh Patel. The residents of some of these areas had been reluctant in the measles rubella (MR) vaccination drive too.
A major awareness drive was taken up to ensure that children from these pockets also got vaccinated.
Patel said that people would start coming forward gradually as and when the awareness regarding the vaccine increased.