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Outlook: Risking My Life To Stamp Out Polio

A Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child

26/03/2014

Risking My Life To Stamp Out Polio

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The Pakistani health worker who vaccinates children against polio, despite the dangers

The Pakistani health worker who vaccinates children against polio, despite the dangers.

Health workers trying to vaccinate children against polio in Pakistan have repeatedly been targeted by militants and - since 2012 - over forty people have been killed because of their links to the vaccination programme.  We speak to one young woman who puts her own life at risk to carry out her work.

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Maurillia Simpson from Trinidad carried out three duty tours of duty in Iraq with the British army. But then she had a serious injury which forced her to leave the army. She's now acting in a stage play called The Two Worlds of Charlie F - along with other former soldiers.

(Picture:  A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a small child in Pakistan. Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images)

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