Polio in Pakistan: Immunizing a population on the move
From the October 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Dressed in a black burqa under a blazing sun with temperatures topping 100 degrees, Hina is going from house to house, knocking on doors. Plastered against the walls of the mud-brick homes, neat rows of hand-patted dung cakes dry in the sun to be used for cooking fuel. Open sewers stagnate beside the uneven dirt roads where children play.
At each home, Hina gives drops of the polio vaccine to any children age five and under and records the doses in her log and with chalk outside the home.
An army of women and men like Hina are on the front lines of…
