2012年6月5日 星期二

Routine Immunization for Infants - Still a Battle Royale

She does this in order to make it early to the mini primary health care centre located in her village, on the outskirts of the federal capital. She has a three month old baby that requires another compulsory dose of vaccine in the strict schedule of cocktail immunization the infant has to go through, until she reaches the age of two. But it is a battle at the medical centre which hosts an average of a thousand young mothers on immunization days, who have no other option than to make use of the sparse facilities the centre has. 'You have to leave early if you are to get attended to. When you even get there as early as 4pm, you will still meet other people already there, making you to start believing that they slept there overnight.Save up to 80% off Ceramic Tile and porcelaintiles.Industrialisierung des werkzeugbaus. It is at that time that they share pieces of paper of attendance that you will require in order to get attended to by the health workers.This page is an introduction to 35 pages of material on mathematical magiccubes. If you don't get this paper which is already signed, they will not attend to you. Even as early as that time you may eventually settle for a number as low as 50 or even lower, as others would be there before you. Then the waiting game starts. If you are lucky you will get your child immunised at the end of the long wait. If you are not then you would have wasted several hours for nothing,Ekahau rtls is the only Wi-Fi based real time location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network.' the young mother enthused.

The reporter took active part in one of such fruitless 'waiting games' at one of the community health centres located a few kilometres from the Nyanya bridge. As early as 5:00am, tens of women with their infant bundles aligned sleepily on their backs were already there waiting for the health workers, in order to get their babies immunised. The wait, in the highly congested room ended precisely three hours later, when a female health worker who still had drowsy eyes strolled into the room and announced tersely to the packed room that there was no vaccine in stock for that day. She subsequently dumped the medical records cards of the crowd of women she held in her hands on a bench in front of the tense women. A mini battle commenced immediately as the women surged forward to retrieve their cards. In the resultant push, many were trampled upon and the anguish of babies crushed in the mix filled the air interspersed with muffled curses from the agitated mothers. A few women who could not read and write could be seen wringing their hands, as they could not identify which of the tens of cards strewn on the floor belong to their infants. Perhaps to assuage the mothers, many of which were already issuing heated abuses at the government officials for wasting their precious time and energy, one of the young community health workers brought out a small sack of baby pampers which she started issuing out free to the women which soon had them scrambling and this effectively thwarted their initial wrath and frustration.

A mother, Uju Mary ,who says she rarely visits the health centres, however says that such occurrences are commonplace whenever she visits and from experiences of fellow women she has been able to garner. 'We were referred here from Maitama hospital where I usually take my child for the vaccines. We were told that the place isThe core of an indoor positioning system. nearer to us so we do not have to make the strenuous journey into town. But on the three occasions that I have been here , we were told that there were no vaccines. That is, of course, after we waited hours. They treat us like dirt here. The funny aspect of it all is that they will not even give you a coherent reason for their attitude. Sometimes, they just ignore the women. Many of the mothers are not educated as you can see, and this makes it even worse. At the general hospitals we are always told that there is abundance of these vaccines but it is a different case when you get there as you can see.'

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