Etawah: Old woman hides on seeing Covid vaccination team

KANPUR: Close on the heels of an incident wherein villagers jumped into a river in Barabanki to avoid taking Covid-19 jab, in yet another incident an elderly woman on seeing health department team ran inside and tried to hide self behind a grain storage container in her house in order to avoid getting inoculated against Covid-19 during a door-to-door vaccination drive in Etawah’s Chandanpur village under Sadar tehsil.
The woman identified as Munni Devi, a resident of Chandanpur village could be seen hiding herself behind a grain storage container in the video that went viral on social media on Thursday.
Health department sources informed TOI that on Tuesday, Sadar MLA Sarita Bhadauria and a team of health workers visited Chandanpur to vaccinate local residents against the coronavirus. “When the MLA and health workers reached Munni’s house, initially she tried to hide herself behind the door, but later tried to dodge the health team and ran inside and sat behind a grain storage container in one of the rooms of her house.”
The viral video shows that later a man started conversing with her saying: “Amma, Amma kahan ho? Itthe aao, Amma, dekho Vidhayak ji aayi hain. (Amma, Amma where are you? Come out, see MLA has come).”Soon, a female health staff tried to convince the elderly woman. She asked her not to be scared and assured that she would not be given the vaccine.
“Rural -folks are a little apprehensive about Covid vaccine. We along with health department officials are convincing them to not hesitate and get vaccinated. This elderly woman was initially standing near the door, later she ran and hid behind a container on coming across health department staff,” said Sarita Bhadauria, BLP MLA from Etawah Sadar while talking to reporters.
Recently, locals of a village in Barabanki in order to skip vaccination jumped into the Saryu river after seeing health workers.