Dose #1 given to more than 20,000... and counting
Posted on Apr 23, 2012
Jon Lascher, PIH – Artibonite Region, Haiti
We've finished our first full week and have vaccinated over 20,000 people ages 10 and older. For the first four days teams set up fixed vaccination posts across 54 localities. After four days the number of people showing up at the posts decreased, so our strategy changed from maintaining fixed posts to teams traveling door-to-door in search of people that had been pre-registered.
The teams have walked, ridden motorcycles, donkeys, and horses to spread the word about the vaccine and find people to vaccinate.
