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A brick kiln in the Sadar area of Patna city. All of Bihar's brick kilns are covered as part of the Unicef SIA (Supplementary Immunisation Activity - ie. the week of the polio round, 12-16th November 2006). Workers at Bihar's kilns are often seasonal migrants and are therefor risk missing vaccination rounds. Their traveling makes it imperative that they are immunised for fear of spreading the virus. Many kilns employ over twenty families with some employing over fifty. In Patna district in the May 2006 polio vaccination round there were 30,746 children immunised at brick kilns. In Bihar state in the May 2006 polio vaccination round there were 173,997 children immunised at brick kilns. ..Photo: Tom Pietrasik.Patna, Bihar, India..November 16th 2006
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ERADICATING POLIO IN INDIA
A brick kiln in the Sadar area of Patna city. All of Bihar's brick kilns are covered as part of the Unicef SIA (Supplementary Immunisation Activity - ie. the week of the polio round, 12-16th November 2006). Workers at Bihar's kilns are often seasonal migrants and are therefor risk missing vaccination rounds. Their traveling makes it imperative that they are immunised for fear of spreading the virus. Many kilns employ over twenty families with some employing over fifty. In Patna district in the May 2006 polio vaccination round there were 30,746 children immunised at brick kilns. In Bihar state in the May 2006 polio vaccination round there were 173,997 children immunised at brick kilns. ..Photo: Tom Pietrasik.Patna, Bihar, India..November 16th 2006