Word: agudelo
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...village elders of Marsella, 6,300 feet up in Colombia's Cauca Valley, weighed the arguments and gave consent -yes, it would be a good idea to give the district's youngsters inoculations against whooping cough and diphtheria. Thereupon, the traveling "sanitary educator," Roberto Agudelo Valencia, 32, jumped into his jeep, switched on the public-address system and drove around announcing a movie in the village square...
...course," Agudelo says, "people were terrified, since it was the first time they had ever heard a loudspeaker." But they turned out, 1,500 strong, to see a Walt Disney health film projected on the cleanest whitewashed wall that Agudelo could find. The villagers heard more about the inoculations at Mass: el señor cura read a "spot" announcement written for him by Agudelo, saying the inoculations were a good thing. In school, the teachers said...
...Agudelo and Graduate Nurse Maritza Gonzalez, 23, had set up three inoculation stations around the village, each manned by a vaccinator-a girl who had taken six months of public-health training. Each vaccinator unpacked an alcohol burner from her black bag, sterilized a batch of needles and syringes, and went to work...
Back for More. Agudelo's team, like six others in different parts of Colombia, had worked around the district, giving first inoculations in one place, returning a month and two months later to give the children their second and third shots. One index to the success of Colombia's campaign is that nearly all the children take the second shot, which is usually enough to confer immunity, and more than two-thirds get the third for extra insurance...