More than 1 million children in Papua New Guinea will receive polio vaccines in push by the government to avoid a wider polio outbreak.
The government is working with UNICEF and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to bring in further vaccines as there have been three confirmed cases and 55 suspected polio cases in PNG.
As the vaccines need to be kept cold across the whole delivery chain, it has been a challenge to deliver them to rural and remote areas of the country which don’t always have electricity available.