See the 2,456 pharmacies on the National E-Pharmacy Platform
Poster 5
1. Nationa l Immuni sa ti on D ays
On National Immunisation Days, or NIDs,
Rotarians mobilise to deliver the vaccine to Rotarians provide many of the essential
hundreds of thousands of children. supplies needed to carry out NIDS.
Travelling by boat, camel, motorcycle or A single NID in India involves:
many other means to the most remore regions
of the planet, vaccinators mark houses with 709,000 vaccination booths
1.17 million vaccination teams
chalk and stain ‘pinkies’ with die to indicate
225 million doses of polio
that children have been immunised.
vaccine
2 million vaccine carriers
6.3 million ice packs to keep the
vaccine cold
209 million homes visited
172 million children immunised
Photograph by Marcus Oleniuk
Photograph by Jean-Mark Giboux
Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland www.thanksforlife.org