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The Hindu Business Line
It is a hot day in June, the mercury touching 40 degrees centigrade. Madhuri Sinha, an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) from Lohahetu Health Centre is riding pillion on her husband’s motorcycle. He winds his way through a bumpy, dusty kuchha road to arrive at village Hitjara in Ranchi district. It is Thursday, a designated day for vaccinations for children.
With public transport scarce in the area, Madhuri relies on her husband to take her to these vaccination rounds every Thursday and Saturday, and sometimes even on other days if the village is ‘hard to reach’.
With four villages and seven hamlets to cater to, this has become her routine on at least eight days in a month. Today is an important day as she has the added responsibility of administering Vitamin A supplement to children aged nine months to five years, under the Jharkhand Mother Child Health and Nutrition Month. This is being done after a long gap of three years. Read more
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