Principal Secretary for Health Dr. Khadijah Kassachon administers the polio drug to young children during the National launch of polio vaccination held in Gilgil Nakuru County in 2015 [Boniface Thuku, Standard]
On the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just beyond where paved roads transition to dirt, an undiagnosed polio infection paralysed a three-year-old girl. From one day to the next, the child’s life was changed forever.