Rotarians play a key role in National Immunisation Days by mobilizing to deliver vaccines to hundreds of thousands of children across remote regions, travelling by various means of transportation to set up over 700,000 vaccination booths staffed by 1.17 million vaccination teams administering 225 million doses of polio vaccine kept cold by 6.3 million ice packs to visit 209 million homes and immunize 172 million children in a single event in India.

1. Nationa l Immuni sa ti on D ays
On National Immunisation Days, or NIDs,
Rotarians mobilise to deliver the vaccine to Rotarians provide many of the essential
hundreds of thousands of children. supplies needed to carry out NIDS.
Travelling by boat, camel, motorcycle or A single NID in India involves:
many other means to the most remore regions
of the planet, vaccinators mark houses with 709,000 vaccination booths
1.17 million vaccination teams
chalk and stain ‘pinkies’ with die to indicate
225 million doses of polio
that children have been immunised.
vaccine
2 million vaccine carriers
6.3 million ice packs to keep the
vaccine cold
209 million homes visited
172 million children immunised
Photograph by Marcus Oleniuk
Photograph by Jean-Mark Giboux
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