Mumbai: fewer women in the state taken by vaccines against Covid-19 compared to men, amounting to a difference of more than 3%.
The gender gap in vaccination can be wider in the district and may grow with more doses given, experts said.
In Maharashtra, 40% of the 6.5-crore man’s estimate has taken at least one dose of vaccine.
In comparison, 36.6% of women from the estimated 5.9 crore population have taken at least one shot.
In the absolute number, 40 lakh more vaccine doses have been given to men.
‘Maharashtra Govt must see where some women who come to Jabs’Official are called gender differences in vaccination statistically not significant and in line with the ratio of state women.
But health experts have called for wise district analysis to find pockets where fewer women are increasingly vaccinated.
They also believe fewer women who get the second dose.
The state has until the date is given 4.79 crore doses, which is 2.59 crores are men beneficiaries and 2.19 crore women.
Dosage differences provided are wider in big cities and urban districts such as Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Nashik, Aurangabad, and Nagpur, clearly because higher doses are given in these places.
The difference is the highest in Mumbai, where 12% more doses have been given to men: 44.99 doses of lakh for men and 35.2 lakh for women.
In Pune, seven more men have taken doses.
In nine of the 35 districts, there was a difference from one dose of lakh in vaccine coverage between men and women – starting 1.1-97 lakh.
Dr.
Pradeep Vyas, Secretary of the Head of Additional (Health), said the difference in the coverage of the vaccine between gender has no major statistical differences.
“It is comparable to the women’s population of the total population.
Furthermore, pregnant women are permitted for recent vaccinations,” he said, adding that it did not need to be worried.
There are around 50-60 lakh more men (about 8% more) in Maharashtra.
Experts are not convinced by the state argument.
“Even the 4% difference was translated into a lakh for a big condition like Maharashtra.
The state must identify pockets where fewer women come to take vaccines.
Gender disparity is seen everywhere in this country and it is impossible for Maharashtra will not experience it,” said Soumitra Ghosh from the Study Study of the Tata Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Ghosh said most health care and forefront of Maharashtra, including Ashas and ANMS, were women.
“Even with those numbers considered, women fall behind men in vaccination,” he said.
“National vaccine policy has never been remembered by considering gender.” Pregnant women and nursing mothers are given a green signal for vaccinations at least six months after the drive starts.
Maharashtra has more than 20 lakh pregnant women.
Dr.
Naveen Thacker, a former representative of civil society to the Board of Gavi, the alliance of the vaccine, said that a lot of information around the safety of vaccination during pregnancy and menstruation had distanced the woman from outlets.
“The number of women’s beneficiaries is very low at the second-dose seeker.
There must be a need to overcome the wrong information through conscious campaigns,” he said.
Gondia and Bhandara are the only districts where more women take vaccines.