Health worker highlights jab barriers

CONTINUIOUS training and update on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) situation is critical in addressing the low vaccination coverage in the country, a health worker says.
Winnie Sagiu from the East Sepik provincial health authority said this when presenting the findings of her research in understanding the barriers and determinants of the Covid-19 vaccine uptake among health workers in East Sepik during the 56th Medical Symposium of the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea yesterday.
She said there were 1,190 healthcare workers in East Sepik of which 423 (around 38 per cent) were vaccinated.
“As someone working in the province and faced with challenges around the Covid-19 vaccination programme, I wanted to understand the barriers preventing health workers from taking the vaccine,” he said. “The study was done as a workplace research project for a short course that I was taking on social research method and public health intervention.”