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Monitors spot-check the activities of the vaccination teams, to ensure the work
conducted is of the highest possible efficiency.
Monitoring is particularly important as it helps detect any potential mistakes
individual vaccination teams may be making, identifies any un-immunized
children, helps overcome any potential additional resistance individual families may have to having their children
immunized, and ensures the vaccination teams are working in accordance to the
micro-plans.
As the day's activities and the performance of the vaccinators are evaluated,
the quality of the campaign is thus assessed while the activity is ongoing.
After the daily evaluations of the monitors, a report is prepared and presented
each evening to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), as well as the District
Magistrate (DM), and any necessary corrective measures for the next day can be
undertaken, maximising the quality of the rest of the immunization campaign.
Such political support is critical to the success of the immunization campaign.
Political support throughout India for polio eradication is extremely strong,
from the national level all the way down to the block level. District and block level support is
particularly important, as it is at these levels that all levels of civil
society can be engaged to successfully implement an immunization activity.
The involvement of monitors helps ensure the highest number of children can be
reached during the immunization campaign.
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