Jakarta –
Health workers are indeed at the forefront of the fate of a country’s public health. One example is the heroic actions taken by health workers in Pakistan. Through a video uploaded by UNICEF’s Instagram account, you can see two health workers in Pakistan walking through a snowstorm until they limped.
Not without reason, the two health workers are trying to provide polio vaccination to children in Pakistan. This vaccine is given to protect a child for life from exposure to the polio virus.
“Take a few seconds to see how health workers in Pakistan are working hard to protect children from polio,” UNICEF said on its Instagram page, Tuesday (14/2/2023).
The two health workers also visited residents’ homes to give polio vaccines to children. No doubt many netizens immediately appreciated the heroic actions of the two health workers.
“Pakistan’s health workers are doing what is necessary, to protect every child from the threat of polio,” UNICEF added.
“Thank you for what you are doing, you are the heroes the world needs,” he continued.
As is known, Pakistan is one of the three remaining polio endemic countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. However, since the launch of the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme in 1994, there has been a massive decline in polio cases in Pakistan, from around 20,000 annually in the early 1990s to just eight cases in 2018.
As long as this virus continues to circulate in Pakistan, no child in Pakistan is completely safe from contracting the polio virus. This is why it is the responsibility of all Pakistanis to ensure that all vulnerable children under the age of five get vaccinated.
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