pune as many as 76822 70 of the estimated 109 lakh healthcare workers have so far volunteered to receive the covid19 vaccine in the pune metropolitan region pmramong the healthcare workers are medical and nonmedical staffers associated with both the public and private hospitals nursing homes and clinics in pune pimpri chinchwad and rural partsregistration figures revealed that the response towards the vaccination was higher in the rural parts than that in the pune and pimpri chinchwad civic limits an official from the pune zilla parishads health department said of the 24248 healthcare workers identified from the rural areas around 21000 have signed up for receiving the vaccinedistrict health officer bhagwan pawar said pune has 14887 healthcare workers including anganwadi teachers and community health staffers in the government sectorbesides around 7000 of the 9371 private healthcare workers have signed up for the vaccination driveamit shaha city immunization officer of the pune municipal corporation pmc told toi that data of around 43000 healthcare workers both from the government and private sectors have been collected there are around 3962 healthcare workers from the civic hospitals the deadline for signing up for the vaccination is over he saidthe pimpri chinchwad municipal corporations pcmc health department has so far identified 12222 healthcare workers from the civic and private hospitals as the priority vaccine recipients pcmc medical officer varsha dange said 2527 of the identified priority recipients were from the government sector and 9695 were from the private facilities they would sign up for the vaccination till december 7pcmc additional health chief pavan salve said they were still awaiting clear instructions from the state government on whom to include as a healthcare worker pcmc additional commissioner santosh patil told toi that the estimated number of healthcare workers in the civic limits could go up to 25000a sizeable chunk of healthcare workers in the region has not yet registered their names for vaccination atul desale associate professor of community medicine at dr dy patil medical college hospital and research centre said unless we have 100 results for the vaccine and its success rate i will have doubts about getting inoculated if the virus is under control then there is a little possibility that the vaccination could totally eradicate itaundhbased homeopath rutika khelkar said she too would refrain from getting vaccinated and rather improve her personal lifestyle practise better social distancing and wear masksanjay patil vicepresident of the indian medical associations ima state branch said currently there is no definitive drug for covid our reliance is obviously more on vaccines but quite a few doctors are unwilling to take the vaccine for reasons ranging from past exposure reservations about transparency safety and efficacythe ima has 5800 member doctors in pune pimpri chinchwad and the rural areas though most are willing to get vaccinated a few are definitely hesitant patil said the association of physicians of indias pune branch has extended full support to the vaccination drive among healtcare workers all our 350 members have registered for covid