Hesitancy towards vaccination is fading but turn up for vaccination is yet to pick up in Palamu, said sources.
Sources said the team of the epidemiologist led by Anup Kumar and SDO sadar Rajesh Kumar Shah have been able to cut ice towards the vaccination but there are still miles to go.
Regional deputy director health Dr John F Kennedy and civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar, sources said, try to spread a broad sheet for the vaccination here.
People of the age group 18 to 44 are slow towards the vaccination here in Palamu, said the district Epidemiologist Dr Anup Kumar.
He said there is a target of nine lakhs twenty five thousand people of this age group to be vaccinated but till date the number of the vaccinated people of this age group is 83, 845 only which is a poor 9 percent.
Anup Kumar said we are making sincere appeals to this age group of people to come and take the jab.
The epidemiologist said our 60 and plus people are far ahead of this age group of 18 to 44.
He said as against the target of one lakh ninety thousand thirty two people of 60 and plus age we have vaccinated one lakh eight thousand three hundred three which is 57 percent.
The epidemiologist said we wish our 18 to 44 should take inspiration from the elderly ones.
Anup Kumar said the middle age group between 45 to 59 has 32 percent vaccination. Here our target is more than three lakhs.
He said although there is now no age group for the vaccination as broadly it is 18 and above the turn up at the vaccination sites leave much to be desired.
The epidemiologist said the hesitancy towards vaccination is slowly fading away but there is still lots of work which is to be done for thousands of people to get the jab.
About the health care workers and front line workers Anup Kumar said they are the real flag bearers of the highest percentage of the vaccination here.
He said 98 percent of healthcare workers are vaccinated while for the front line workers it is 90 percent.