Patna: Gender Gap can be seen even in Covid-19 vaccination in the state, because men’s beneficiaries exceed the number of women with almost 10% in receiving shots.
This disparity is also seen at the national level.
In accordance with official data until Wednesday night at the Pan India level, out of the total beneficiaries given the vaccine dose so far, 53.66% have become men and 46.32 %% women – gender gaps almost 8%.
A week ago, the difference was almost 10%.
The gap in Bihar is slightly more than the national average as 54.81% inoculated is male and 45.16% of women.
According to state data, of a total of 1,75,80,696 doses given until Wednesday night, including 96.37,352 to men and only 79,40,086 for women.
Unicef ​​Communication Specialist (Bihar) Nipabhh Gupta quotes Patriarchal Mindset as one of the reasons more men who are vaccinated.
“There are many myths that are bound by vaccination and menstrual hygiene and cleanliness.
Also, people think that men must come out so they must be vaccinated first.
Health search behavior is less among women,” he said and quoted technology problems with women as other reasons and how , In some families, even children are afraid of getting their mothers vaccinated.
“Someone must reach a woman with a message that targets them,” he added.
Among the three categories where the recipient is divided, maximum vaccination has been carried out in young people, even though their rotation starts last in May.
So far, 43.19% of doses have been given to young people, followed by 28.99% to those in the age group 45-60 and 27.81% to people above 60.
Patna DM Chandrashekhar Singh said various programs Awareness is being held to remove doubt vaccines, if any.
“We also focused on female vaccination and a large number of Jeevika workers have roamed this beneficiaries vaccinated,” Singh said, adding facilities for door threshold vaccinations was also provided for the people.