Beleagavi: The absence and doubts have slowed the vaccination between children between 15-18 years in Kalaburagi and Yadgir, encouraging the district to two lower positions in the coverage of inoculation.
In Kalaburagi, the division headquarters for KK, coverage was 34% and Yadgir struggled at 29%.
Health officials connect PAR coverage on attendance and doubts among parents.
Although health staff visit schools, they cannot accelerate inoculation.
Of the total population targeted at 1,59,770 in Kalaburagi, 54,035 teenagers have got Jab and in Yadgir 21,360 have been inoculated out of a total of 73,965 targeted populations.
The two districts are in two bottom.
According to Prabhuling Missar, district immunization officers, the government school has registered less than 50% of attendance every day since vaccination begins.
For children who are not vaccinated, the Ministry of Health staff must visit their homes to manage vaccines with approval from parents.
Also, the majority of children in two district studies at government facilities.
Prabhuling said that because fear would spread the omicron variant quickly, part of the parent had stopped sending their children to school.
Also, many children drop out of school during a pandemic and haven’t returned to class.
Financial Health Officers Sharanabasappa Gajalkhed told Toi which aside from absenteeism, in some vaccine bags of doubts was a problem.
In a rustic bag, parents are reluctant to approve the vaccine.
Health officials work hard to convince them.
This can produce results, he said.
Indumati District District Health Officer Patil said high attendance at school.
“Now, we change the strategy by visiting children’s homes.
There are many dropouts and we do all efforts to reach them,” he said.
If schools are closed in the coming days, the vaccination drive will take a heavy blow, a health official said.
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