29/10/2011
Rotarian polio survivor takes advocacy work to Afghanistan and Australia
Ramesh Ferris, Canadian Rotarian and polio survivor, travels to Australian and Afghanistan to advocate for polio-free world.
His efforts in promoting a polio-free world in Australia follow a trip in September to Afghanistan, one of four remaining polio-endemic countries (alongside India, Nigeria and Pakistan). Ferris met with government officials, doctors and parents, to discuss the urgent need for all Afghan children to be fully immunized against polio.
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