Muhammad Arif

It is the contagious enthusiasm of my fellow health workers that keeps me upbeat about the outcome. Together we can finish the job

I like to spend time with my friends. We are a group of hikers who would go hiking every weekend. From my experience of climbing the mountains I can say polio is not as big problem as it seems from the bottom. To win over it, all we need to do is to aim high and keep moving.

I have been assigned to a mountainous area that becomes very difficult and dangerous to carryout door to door vaccination campaigns during harsh weather conditions. However, a challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

There is not a single child missed out on polio vaccination in my area. Our mobilization effort has profit; today no family in Murree’abad would refuse polio drops because they have realized the significance of the polio vaccine drops for their children’s health.

I have been involved with polio eradication for the last 27 years and I had a chance to interact with many health workers who all had one thing in common: they believed polio eradication is possible and that the vaccine will help the communities they serve to eradicate polio.

Muhammad Arif
Polio Vaccinator
Quetta, Balochistan Province