Students support vaccination to save lives

Students support vaccination to save lives

Catarino Estêvão Fernandes Francisco, 21, is in his third year of medicine at the Private University of Angola (UPRA). He always dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon. 

But the experience of working in Luanda on the national polio vaccination campaign, which ran from 8 to 11 September 2023, has given him another dream. "I want to do field work, observe patients and help the most vulnerable people. I don't want to sit in a doctor's surgery. I want to work in public health."

 A significant development introduced in the polio vaccination campaign was the collaboration between the WHO and UPRA, a partnership strengthened since the 2nd International Medical Congress held in July this year.

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