UP: For 30 years, this nurse walked 8km a day to vaccinate kids in remote areas | Agra News
Madhuri Mishra AGRA: Madhuri Mishra had defied her family and circumstances to become a health worker in 1983. It was just five years after the national immunization programme had been launched in the newly smallpox-free country. For 30 years since then, Madhuri, now 60, walked 8km every day to reach remote villages, immunise those most vulnerable and with the least access to healthcare. Even when they “banned” her from entering. “The first few years were very tough. People didn’t want to get immunised,” she told TOI on Monday. Myths and rumours about vaccines would reach these vil...
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