Abstract
Background: Nationwide COVID-19 vaccination has been launched since 16th February 2021 and health care workers are offered to get vaccinated at rst. Vaccine coverage is a yardstick in measuring success of vaccination program. Despite cost-free, its acceptance among healthcare workers is not encouraging. Objectives: 1. To estimate coverage of COVID-19 vaccination among different categories of health care workers working in Agartala Government Medical College. 2. To study their attitude towards vaccination.3.To determine the association between selected socio-demographic parameters and vaccination. Methodology: Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Hospital based. Study population: Health care workers of A Setting: Sample size: GMC. 300 health care workers. Sampling: Convenient sampling .Study period: February 2021. A pretested structured and vali Study tool: Result: dated interview schedule. Out of 300 participants, 51% HCWs has received vaccination. Among 51% HCWs 37.9%doctors, 61%technicians and 100%nurses and other HCWs received the vaccine. 51% HCWs accepted the vaccination as protective for COVID-19 and had an attitude to receive the 2nd dose. Data management: Data analysis performed in computer using SPSS-25 for windows. Mean and SD will be used to summarize the continuous data and proportions for the categorical ones. P-value <0.05 will be considered signicant. Conclusion:Currently, during this COVID-19 pandemic, only approximately 51% of the HCWs got a dose of COVID-19 vaccine and majority had an attitude towards receiving the 2nd dose. In the context of a pandemic, vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to implementing vaccination campaigns. To maintain benets of vaccination programmes, understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy will be crucial to their successful implementation.
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