Children and infants forced to wait in sweltering heat for polio vaccine in Vasco

Polio immunization is happening at the Vasco Urban Health Center but under extreme conditions. The vaccination center is temporarily running operations out of RavindraBhavan in Baina. However, without a fan or cooler, young children and infants are forced to spend hour’s together suffering through the sweltering summer heat

With the record breaking temperatures that Goa saw this year, the fallout of this arrangement could be quite drastic. Here’s more from our reporter HiruMahale.

Here’s what a few parents who had brought their children to get the polio dose had to say.