New Delhi: Taking cognisance of a media report which highlights low uptake of anti-COVID jabs among women, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to chief secretaries of all states/UTs to take measures to close the gender gap in vaccination.
NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma said the gap in immunisation coverage between the two genders is a matter of grave concern for the Commission, ANI reported.
“There is an urgent need to increase the proportion of women coming to vaccination booths for receiving the vaccine so that the gap in immunisation coverage can be corrected,” she said.
The letter also says that there is a need to create public health awareness so that more and more women are vaccinated on priority.
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