JAIPUR: The enthusiasm among the healthcare workers towards the Covid-19 vaccine seems to have dampened a bit as 46% of them did not turn up for vaccination even though they were listed for Tuesday’s Covid vaccination in Co-WIN app. The healthcare workers who got vaccinated with Covaxin were 141 which was 23.5% of the target of vaccinating 600 with Covaxin. Besides, the target achieved of vaccinating healthcare workers with Covishield was 56.1% on Tuesday.
The vaccination was done online as the Co-WIN app worked without any glitches. The Co-WIN app now provides an option to add the name of registered healthcare workers, if anyone of them comes and asks the vaccination in-charge to get vaccinated even though his name is not listed for vaccination on that particular day. The arrangement has been done as a lot of healthcare workers, who are listed for vaccination for a particular day, do not turn up on that day. In place of such healthcare workers who do not turn up, the vaccination in-charges have now the option to vaccinate others. The target of vaccination at each session site is 100.
The percentage of target achievement is decreasing every day. Some healthcare workers are slightly jittery, even as those who have got the shot are encouraging others to get the vaccine saying that it was safe and they do not have any adverse impacts though three days have passed.
On Day 1 of Covid inoculation drive, the achievement of target in the state was 73.7%, on Day 2 of the vaccination drive, the achievement of target was 68.7% and on Day 3 (Tuesday), it has gone further down to 54.8%, shows the report issued by the health department on Tuesday.
The number of healthcare workers who got the vaccine was 12,258, which reduced to 11,288 on Day 2 and on Day 3 (Tuesday), the number of health care workers was 8,833.
Dr Dhan Raj Bagri, vaccination in-charge, JK Lon hospital, said, “Some healthcare workers are showing hesitancy, at the same time, some are showing eagerness. We are finding both at our hospital. In our hospital, 11,097 healthcare workers are registered. The hesitancy is due to rumours but we are trying to neutralize the rumours to encourage the healthcare workers to get the vaccines.”
In other hospitals too, the vaccination in-charges have to put in a lot of efforts to encourage the healthcare workers to get it done. “Some of them need some counselling for vaccination, while some of the healthcare workers come to us willingly to get vaccinated,” said Dr Shalini Rathore, in-charge vaccination, Mahila Chikitsalaya.
In some places, the vaccination in-charges have to call the healthcare workers encouraging them to get vaccinated. They counsel them by saying that they have already been injected with the vaccine and they are feeling fine and they do not have any adverse events following vaccination. They also encourage the healthcare workers saying that the vaccine is safe.