Immunization Check

On Monday we went rural again! This time was for what they call an immunization recheck. A village is chosen at random, and workers from the provincial CDC go to that village to check children's immunization cards. The child's immunization card is compared to a log kept by the township hospital, where immunizations are given. This check has already been done by the local CDC, hence the "recheck". This is primarily a quality evaluation of record keeping, but has the added benefit of speaking to the villagers and reminding them of the need to immunize their children. We caught up with a group of villagers with their children at an impromptu clothes sale by the side of the road. The picture on the left shows the man handing over the immunization card for the child in his mother's arms next to him. The mother to the far left is being scolded because her son is behind on his immunizations. The picture on the right is of two CDC workers comparing the immunization card with the log book.