So i gathered my men and volunteers, vaccine and other stuff and stuffed the Government vehicle alloted to me. It was tough to fit in everything in a crampy-old maruti Omni but we managed somehow...So off we went in the direction of first stop, a booth, an anganwadi where i was suppose to meet an anganwadi worker. To my horror, i first could not locate the anganwadi, let alone the anganwadi worker. I asked some locals and located the home of the worker. I made him realize that today is the Pulse Polio day and gave him the vaccine. Then i headed for the next booth and one by one delivered volunteers and vaccine to all the stations. As i was coming back i asked my driver, what next, he said well sir u have to now start inspecting the areas as to check whther the workers are doing there job or not. I said i dont know wht to check. he gave a wry smile and said sir you will know. He sounded like the Headmaster dumbledor of the harry potter series making a prophecy that i will knw!!...but the fact of matter was i didnt knw!!
but then i took my supervisor stuff from the head office and went back to assess the areas.
As i roamed home to home and asked whther children have been immunized i found that almost 90% of the population was covered by these guys and its a good sign for the national program. Inspite of the various drawbacks, and various footfalls, the program actually worked.
contd in nxt post...
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