PATNA: Twenty-five-year-old Reena had sacrificed a day's wages and spent several hours walking in the blazing sun to reach an immunisation camp in Maner block in Bihar capital Patna. For the migratory labourer from Nalanda, this was a rare opportunity to get her one-and-a-half month-old son inoculated.
Reena works at a brick kiln and had reached the immunisation camp set up under Mission Indradhanush at Sona Brick Kiln. The entire area, located around the Ganga riverbed, has a concentration of brick kilns that attract migrant labourers from districts like Nalanda, Jehanabad and Gaya. This was the core reason why the health ministry had launched the immunisation initiative in the area to target itinerant workers under Mission Indradhanush. Read more
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