Daily: TRUST ISSUE – Why are minorities avoiding the COVID jab?

<p>Why are so many minority patients rejecting the COVID vaccines and what can healthcare do about it? <strong>Vaccine hesitancy</strong> in minority communities is threatening to turn the pandemic into a specific crisis for marginalised and non-white populations. Ayesha Hazarika talks to <strong>Dr Salman Waqar</strong>, GP and General Secretary of the British Islamic Medical Association, about a problem with deep roots in the historic marginalisation of BAME people.&nbsp;</p><ul><li><em>“When we tell BAME communities that this vaccine will save your life, many of them won’t take what you say at face value”</em></li><li><em>“I’ve seen elderly vaccination patients crying because it was the first time they’d been out since March 2020”</em></li><li><em>“A lot of the NHS’s non-white workforce has struggled to get its voice heard… We’re still not seeing that workforce represented in NHS management”</em></li><li><em>“The biggest killer in COVID is economic deprivation – and minority communities happen to be more poor”</em></li></ul><p><em>Presented by Ayesha Hazarika. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>