Every Wednesday, autorickshaw driver, Purnachandra Saba, without fail, delivers boxes of vaccines to anganwadi centres where ASHA worker Sushanti Bhoi patiently waits for the consignments to arrive.
Drivers and ASHAs like Purnachandra and Sushanti are the back bone of the innovative Alternative Vaccine Delivery System (AVDS), that has reduced vaccine shortage, improved vaccine quality and ensured regularization of immunization of children and pregnant mothers in hard to reach areas in Odisha.
Implemented in 280 blocks of the Orissa state, AVDS is an improved programme intervention in vaccine distribution that has borne rich results for the State.
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