
The study covered 244 resident doctors at a municipal hospital and the Gujarat Cancer Society Medical College. Nearly 75% of these doctors claimed that they had been vaccinated for Hepatitis B, just 24% of them, all women, said they had been vaccinated for the human papilloma Virus (HPV). When these 244 doctors were asked to reveal their vaccination status, only 20% doctors claimed that they had seasonal influenza shots, 9.4% said they had taken the typhoid vaccine, and just 6% had opted for the diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus (dPT/dT) vaccine. The study was conducted by a team of doctors — Donald Christian, Kamlesh Jain and Jayshree Tolani of GCS Medical College and Haresh Chandwani of PFHI, Gurugram.