Posted by Rich Dyson
Here are some photos of our trip to India for the polio N.I.D (National Immunization Day) in India.
 
We first met with Dr. Matthew Varghese who is the leading orthopedic surgeon in India treating polio patients.  He gave a presentation to my wife, Kristen, and me at St. Stephen’s Hospital in New Delhi.  We were with the Belgian team and were then given a tour of the polio wards where Dr. Varghese explained the different procedures he uses for the varying polio cases.
 
We went the next day to a neighborhood in New Delhi to work our immunization station with Rotary teams from Australia and Japan in addition to local Rotarians.  The local newspaper ran an article the next day showing that we had immunized 232 children at our station.
 
In all, there were 2.5 million volunteers working throughout India on the N.I.D. immunizing more than 75 million children under 5 years old.