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He stuffed hand towels in the front pockets of his trousers to make them work like thigh guards and she, far away from him, walked nearly eight kilometres a day to accomplish her mission. He created a path, she knocked on doors. He flew from country to country; she went from village to village. He retired years ago; she retired from service last week. Both unique in their pursuit but both built bridges that we’re all walking on today. The two, unknown to each other, have influenced our lives in the largest possible way in cricket and in vaccines
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AGRA: Madhuri Mishra had defied her family and circumstances to become a health worker in 1983. It was just five years after the national immunization programme had been launched in the newly smallpox-free country. For 30 years since then, Madhuri, now 60, walked 8km every day to reach remote villages, immunise those most vulnerable and with the least access to healthcare. Even when they “banned” her from entering.
“The first few years were very tough. People didn’t want to get immunised,” she told TOI on Monday. Myths and rumours about vaccines would reach these villages faster than she could. People were worried vaccines would cause infertility, fever or just make them sick with the disease the shot was meant to prevent. “But I’d keep walking, stopping at villages and vaccinating children. It had to be done. At times, people would misbehave. At others, they wouldn’t let me enter. I would keep going back, sometimes with others who had vaccinated the
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