Fighting Polio

This year Kenya has seen a few small outbreaks of Polio. Fortunately none of them have hit our area. This week our clinic partnered with the Kenya Ministry of Health (MOH) to provide an anti-polio campaign in our community. The goal was to provide an extra oral booster for all children under the age of six.

We spent a week putting the word out that the campaign would take place on Tues. The first mamas arrived shortly after 8AM on Tues morning. By the time the clinic closed at 5PM we had vaccinated over 380 children. Talk about a busy day! We saw several mamas come who had never brought their children to our clinic before. It was good exposure for the clinic and the first of what I hope will be many preventative health events this year!