NID & mop up
Yesterday we started the day with the Rotary Club of New Delhi and visited a few of the booths they were supporting. We got the chance to give the Polio drops to quite a few of the children that appeared, as well as mark their pinkies with the purple dye and give out our gifts. We also visited a number of booths to see how they check and supervise the operation. In Delhi there are around 7,900 booths which can immunize up to 3000 children each - and that’s just Delhi! Each booth is staffed by 2 or 3 volunteers, one of which is medically trained in some way so they can answer other questions if the come up. We probably managed to immunize about 50 children throughout the day.
Today we were with one of the teams going round the houses which was very interesting. We were with a lady whose daughter is studying in Stirling - coincodence, or what? Anyway, we toured round an area of Delhi - some bits of which were better than others looking for children without a purple pinkie, and found a few. We were invited into a house, well really just a room with enough space for a double bed, to immunize a month old baby and her older sister. We were made very welcome, offered tea and given blessings because we were helping with the polio drops. Once “our” round had finished we returned to their center to see the collation of numbers. Had great fun with the girls and some of us ended up with henna tattoos on our hands.
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