Congo-Kinshasa: Standing Up Against Polio in DRC

Goma — When Linda Lukambo, 21, asked his parents why they had neglected to get him the polio vaccine, "they told me, 'we did'. So why have I got polio?" he told IRIN in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Maybe they took me for vaccinations, but maybe not for polio."

Lukambo first started having difficulty walking while at a pre-school in Tchambucha Village, near the North Kivu town of Walikale. After six months he was, he says, "still walking a little bit. And then I started to move on my bottom, and then on my knees, and it got worse and worse." By the time he was in primary school he was "crawling on all fours".

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