Lucy Tombe, Nursing supervisor, Magna Children At Risk temporary immunisation clinic, Tomping IDP camp. Juba, South Sudan.

• 10 November 2014
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  <article> <h1> <span>Lucy Tombe, Nursing supervisor, Magna Children At Risk temporary immunisation clinic, Tomping IDP camp. Juba, South Sudan.</span> </h1> <ul> <li> <b>10 November 2014</b> </li> </ul> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <article id="post-704" class="module single-post-module post-704 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-people category-uncategorized tag-child-health tag-children tag-global-health tag-south-sudan tag-vaccineportrait et-has-post-format-content et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"> <div> <div> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">“I am in charge of the Magna team here, we are a Gavi partner in South Sudan, and we are carrying out daily immunisations for children of families who ran here for protection when the war started in December 2013. These children face many difficulties – when they fled their homes, their mothers could only carry what they were wearing. It means they don’t have the right clothes to protect them now the rainy season is here. Now there is malaria, there is the worry of measles, or of diarrhoea, or respiratory diseases. We had a cholera outbreak recently. We’re trying to protect all of them as best as we can, but more arrive every day. </span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">“Living here is very undignified. People before had nice houses, with good shelter, maybe even electricity or running water. Here they sleep in tents that leak, and walk through puddles of water and excrement. You can see how illnesses can spread in these circumstances. At the same time, because of the disruption, routine vaccinations were interrupted. That’s why what we are doing is so important.” </span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">———————————————————————————————</span></p> <p class="p2"><em><span class="s1">Photo: Gavi/Mike Pflanz</span></em></p> <p><img id="portrait" src="http://gaviweb.org/vaccineswork/vaccine-portraits-icon.gif" alt="image" loading="lazy"></p> </div> </div> <input type="hidden" id="post_id" value="704"> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/lucy-tombe-nursing-supervisor-magna-children-at">Original article</a> </p><p>This article was originally published on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork">VaccinesWork</a> </p><script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-M7H54VD');</script><noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-M7H54VD" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript></article>

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