Himachal feels proud as a health worker Geeta Verma featured in WHO calender'18

NewsBharati    15-Jan-2018
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Mandi, January 15: Geeta Verma, a health worker who hails from Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh has achieved yet another milestone after she featured in the World Health Organization (WHO) calendar for the year 2018.

 

Notably, a health worker Geeta Verma has featured in the WHO calendar for the year 2018 for her outstanding task in ensuring 100 percent coverage under measles and rubella vaccination programme in her area of operation.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur while felicitating Geeta for her achievement said that it was a matter of pride for the state that a woman health worker found special mention in the WHO calendar. CM Thakur also urged all employees to exhibit similar commitment towards their jobs to serve the people with dedication.

Geeta Verma was deployed at Health Sub Centre, Shakardehra, in Block Jhanjehli of Mandi district where she undertook a massive campaign to vaccinate children even in the remote villages. Geeta taking the campaign to another level went to great lengths to immunize the children of shepherds and the Gujjars community in the remote areas of Raygarh.

Geeta for the betterment of children, walked and drove her motorcycle to all the remote corners of Himachal Pradesh and immunized each and every children belonging to nomadic communities and others. On the other side, Geeta’s image riding a motorcycle on a bumpy road in the Seraj valley in Mandi carrying MR vaccine box to Raygarh, has gone viral on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.

Earlier, on 5 February 2017, with WHO support, India launched one of the world’s largest vaccination campaigns against measles and rubella to improve health and well-being of its people by protecting children against vaccine-preventable diseases. Importantly, Measles is a major childhood killer disease and rubella causes congenital rubella syndrome that is responsible for irreversible birth defects.