Dr. Namala Mkopi: ‘I’m tired of seeing children die of things that can be prevented’

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  <article> <h1> <span>Dr. Namala Mkopi: ‘I’m tired of seeing children die of things that can be prevented’</span> </h1> <div><p>Meet Dr. Namala Mkopi. He’s a Tanzanian pediatrician and an advocate for an organization ONE is working hard to support: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.</p> </div> <ul> <li> <b>10 November 2014</b> </li> </ul> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p><strong>How has the child health landscape changed in Tanzania since you became a doctor?</strong></p> <p>The most significant change has actually happened over the past year because we launched the pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines. We have a ward in our national hospital for children with diarrheal diseases.</p> <p>Before the vaccines, it’d be full of children, and by full I mean 3 kids in a bed, with some more on a mattress on the floor. Now, just a year later, you walk in and the ward has 5 kids, maybe 10. Sometimes you go in there and there’s not a single child. And you don’t see many deaths either because the healthcare workers can handle the few kids that come in. It’s not an overwhelming number.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.one.org/us/2014/10/29/dr-namala-mkopi-im-tired-of-seeing-children-die-of-things-that-can-be-prevented/">Original article (one.org)</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/dr-namala-mkopi-im-tired-of-seeing-children">Original article</a> </p><p>This article was originally published on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork">VaccinesWork</a> </p><script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-M7H54VD');</script><noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-M7H54VD" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript></article>

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