How Kenyan volunteers hunt polio’s hidden trail
“Nomadic pastoralist communities constantly move back and forth across these invisible international borders in search of water and pasture,” Dr Emmanuel Okunga, who heads disease surveillance at Kenya’s Ministry of Health, told Al Jazeera.“The information gathered by community health volunteers in high-risk counties, such as Turkana and Samburu, allows the ministry to respond quickly with targeted interventions,” Dr Galm Glelo, the Ministry of Health’s national point person for polio surveillance, told Al Jazeera.“Teams on both sides of the international border must move in perfect tandem to ensure that no migratory child slips through the cracks undetected,” Dr Pius Mutuku of the Ministry of Health’s Public Health Emergency Operations Centre told Al Jazeera.
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