September 2017
SEATTLE — Interviews in the English language can only offer so much insight into polio eradication efforts in the trilingual nation of Sri Lanka.
A child gets a mark after polio vaccination. Photo by: UNICEF Ethiopia.
“The administrators in Colombo are happy to discuss plans and progress in English, but workers in the districts discuss priorities, problems and achievements in Sinhalese and Tamil,” said Sanjoy Bhattacharya, professor of the history of medicine and director of the Center for Global Health Histories at the University of York.
