Catarino Estêvão Fernandes Francisco, 21, is in his third yr of medication on the Non-public College of Angola (UPRA). He at all times dreamed of changing into a neurosurgeon. 

However the expertise of working in Luanda on the nationwide polio vaccination marketing campaign, which ran from 8 to 11 September 2023, has given him one other dream. “I need to do subject work, observe sufferers and assist probably the most susceptible individuals. I do not need to sit in a health care provider’s surgical procedure. I need to work in public well being.”

 A major growth launched within the polio vaccination marketing campaign was the collaboration between the WHO and UPRA, a partnership strengthened because the 2nd Worldwide Medical Congress held in July this yr.