A vaccinator shows a bag full of polio vaccine vials on the Polio Day at the Muslim Camp Basti in Dhabiatalab. On Polio Days, small booths are set up in different parts of the city, urging local resid...

A child gets a polio vaccine on Polio Day at the Muslim Camp Basti in Dhabiatalab. On Polio Days, small booths are set up in different parts of the city, urging local residents to vaccinate all childr...

An infant gets his finger marked after receiving his oral vaccination at a polio booth on Polio Day at a municipal office in Kolkata. On Polio Days, small booths are set up in different parts of the c...

Vaccinators wait for children at a polio booth outside a market in Panchanatala Bazaar on Polio Day in Kolkata. On Polio Days, small booths are set up in different parts of the city, urging local resi...

On Polio Day young children play with the colourful plastic balls they were each given after taking their oral polio vaccinations at the Muslim Camp Basti in Dhabiatalab. On Polio Days, small booths a...

Shipra Dhara (38), a polio vaccinator, gives a dose of oral drops to a child at the Muslim Camp Basti in Dhabiatalab on Polio Day. On Polio Days, small booths are set up in different parts of the city...

19 year old, Seema Puria, a nursing student from the Howrah District Hospital, with her medicines and wearing a Polio Day sash, at the Howrah Station. Seema, along with other nursing students vaccinat...

Laboratory assistants from the Institute of Serology prepare to collect the samples from a sewer in Shyam Lal lane to monitor the polio virus in urban Bengal.

Nursing students from the Howrah District Hospital, with their medicines and wearing Polio Day sashes, at the Howrah Station. The students vaccinate children transiting through the train station, whic...

Residents gather to look on as two laboratory assistants, from the Institute of Serology, collect samples from a sewer in Rabindra Nagar in 24 South Pargana, the outskirts of Kolkata, to monitor the p...

29 year old Bicky Dome, a laboratory assistant from the Institute of Serology, with a bottle of collected sewage samples to monitor the polio virus in urban Bengal.

Dr. Mathew Varghese points to polio sufferer Parveen's feet prior to an operation at the St. Stephen's Hospital. Dr. Mathew Varghese is a polio specialist who is providing ground breaking technology a...

Dr. Mathew Varghese (right) operates on the feet of his patient, 11 year old Parveen, at the St. Stephen's Hospital. Dr. Mathew Varghese is a polio specialist who is providing ground breaking technolo...

A polio patient recovers from an operation on the Polio Ward of the St. Stephen's Hospital. They are under the care of Dr. Mathew Varghese, a polio specialist who is providing ground breaking technolo...

Dr. Mathew Varghese (right) and his assistant doctor inspect the leg of a patient, 21 year old Rani, on the Polio Ward of the St. Stephen's Hospital. Dr. Mathew Varghese is a polio specialist who is p...

Dr. Mathew Varghese with some of his Polio patients on the Polio Ward at the St. Stephen's Hospital. Dr. Mathew Varghese a polio specialist who is providing ground breaking technology and helping some...

Herbalist Pa Hassana Kamara.

Ripa Akter (P & O assistant) helps Anowara Begum (40) fix her artificial limb below her knee. She lost her leg in a road accident in 2011. In the background Imrahim Morshed is practicing walking with...

Shompa Roy Chowdhury (assistant coordinator orthosis) is measuring Asif Hasan’s cast for a new AFO (ankle foot orthosis). Asif will receive training to walk after receiving his final artificial leg...

Ripa Akter (P & O assistant), Shompa Roy Chowdhury (Assistant coordinator orthosis) and Shekh Muhammad Abdul Latif (Artificial limb specialist) are working at CDD (Center for disability in Development...

A medical worker tests the hearing of a patient at the CDD (Center for disability in Development).

Konka Rani (65) has a vision test at the CDD (Center for disability in Development).

A medical worker tests the hearing of a patient at the CDD (Center for disability in Development).

Shompa Roy Chowdhury (assistant coordinator orthosis) is measuring Asif Hasan’s cast for a new AFO (ankle foot orthosis). Asif will receive training to walk after receiving his final artificial leg...

Konka Rani (65) has a vision test at the CDD (Center for disability in Development).

Six year old Mohammed a refugee from Iraq is checked by MSF doctor Dimitris Giannousis at the charity's mobile clinic held in a camper van at Mytiline port.

MSF nurse Daphne Garefou treats a man's with blisters at the medical centre in Kara Tepe refugee camp.

MSF doctor Anna Hoekstra examines two Afghan brothers at the charity's mobile medical centre, a camper van, in Mytiline port.

Eirini Dimitriadou, a volunteer at the Metropolitan Community Clinic.

A volunteer at the pharmacy of the Metropolitan Community Clinic.

At noon on Friday 11 September Aysha, who is five months pregnant, is examined by MSF nurse Vaso Avagianou at the medical centre in Kara Tepe camp. She spent the previous night in a tent using flatten...

Muna, a Community Health Care Provider, transports vaccinations, kept in cool boxes, by rickshaw to the distribution point as part of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI). The pneumococcal vacci...

Muna, a Community Health Care Provider, gives an injection to three month old Laboni who has been brought by her mother Sonia to the vaccination centre as part of the Expanded Program on Immunisation...

Muna, a Community Health Care Provider, prepares a vaccination at a vaccination distribution centre as part of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI). The pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protect...

Muna, a Community Health Care Provider, transports vaccinations, kept in cool boxes, by rickshaw to the distribution point as part of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI). The pneumococcal vacci...

A mother and her child at Dhaka Shishu (Children's) Hospital to receive vaccines in the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) where the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one of the l...

A technician checks vaccines kept safe in a refrigerator at a hospital for use in the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) where the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one of the lea...

Technicians check vaccines at a hospital for use in the community as part of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) where the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one of the leading...

Muna, a Community Health Care Provider, gives an oral vaccine to three month old Saif who has been brought by his grandmother to the vaccination centre as part of the Expanded Program on Immunisation...

Muna, a Community Health Care Provider, gives an oral vaccine to five month old Shuvo who has been brought by his mother to the vaccination centre as part of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI)...

A mother and her child, dignitaries and medical staff at Dhaka Shishu (Children's) Hospital at the launch of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) where the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which prot...

Parents and their child at Dhaka Shishu (Children's) Hospital at the launch of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) where the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one of the leadin...

Women practice givng injectable vaccines while taking part in a workshop for health workers.

Naima Akter (60) with her grandson (Arom Rahim, 24 days old) who has come for a vaccination at Dhaka Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) centre. The pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects again...

A child receives an oral vaccine at the Dhaka Shishu (Children's) Hospital at the launch of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) where the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one...

A medical worker gives an injection to Halima, three months, who has been brought by her mother Maksuda to the Dhaka Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) centre. The pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), whic...

A health worker talks with Rabeya (21), who has brought her son Raihan, four months, for vaccines at the Dhaka Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) centre. The pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which prot...

Rabeya (21), has brought her son Raihan, four months, for vaccines at the Dhaka Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) centre. The pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one of the leading...

Jesmin Akter and her daughter (Raifa, 10 months) for vaccines at the Dhaka Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) centre. The pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one of the leading caus...

Amrit Kumar Mojumder, an assistant chemist in the National Polio and Measles laboratory.

A mother and her child at Dhaka Shishu (Children's) Hospital to receive vaccines at the launch of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI). The pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which protects against one...

Dr. Mahbuba Jamil in the National Polio and Measles laboratory.

Dr. Mahbuba Jamil in the National Polio and Measles laboratory.

A Syrian refugee, in Mytiline, shows a box of heart medicine he takes. On the boat trip from Turkey to Greece his boat capsized and he lost his medicine. Lesbos island has become a major destination f...

A recovering drug addict takes required medication,usually a type of benedryl (antihistamine), a B-12 vitamin, a charcoal tablet, which absorbs substances in the stomach and intestines, and another ta...

A Bugis ('sea gypsy') woman, her face coated in traditional cooling and protecting paste, at Wuring village, a stilted Bugis settlement on the coast close to Maumere.

An Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) plane delivers medical supplies at Leer airstrip. In 2014, the MSF hospital in Leer – which has served the community for 27 years – was burned and looted when th...

A woman selling vegetables and a 'jamu' (traditional medicine woman), wearing a conical hat, in the Ende market.

14-year old Kume Saadi Kuony was just seeking some shade from South Sudan's scorching sun when disaster struck. What Kume did not know was that the container sheltering him from the midday heat was fu...

The 'Jamu' (traditional medicine) woman, wearing a conical hat, dispenses a healing glassful to a happy customer in Ende's colourful and bustling market.

Crushed plants seeds used as traditional medicine by a Turkana family.

A health worker, specialised in hearing problems, checks the ear of a young child during a camp clinic day.

A health worker, specialised in hearing problems, checks the ear of an elderly woman during a camp clinic day.

Two patients share the same hospital bed while waiting for treatment in a remote clinic.

Nurse Kumari Usakiran, 26, gives a tetanus vaccine injection to 10 year old Parlad at a makeshift health post in Suarpani-4 village where 42 people were killed and 22 injured, while barely 10 of 1000...

A Rohingya boy reacts to treatment for malnutrition in a temporary clinic supported by Muslim donors from Yangon (Rangoon) and staffed by unqualified volunteers at an IDP camp near Thet Kay Pyin in th...

Patients, many suffering from malnutrition, wait to be given medicine, vitamin supplements and rehydration salts by unqualified volunteer healthcare workers in a temporary clinic. The facility, at an...

People congregate outside the 'Aung Pharmacy', a shack selling medicine and dispensing unqualified medical advice near Thet Kay Pyin in the Rohingya segregated area north of Sittwe. Since the NGOs wer...

Dr. Marius Rehn, from London's Air Ambulance. Also known as the London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), it is a British registered charity that operates an air medical service dedicated to...

Professor David Lockey (L), Research and Development Lead, with paramedic Andrea Riggs and a colleague on the helipad at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.London's Air Ambulance, also known as...

Paramedic Lee Davis working the HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) dispatch at London Ambulance Service. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Ser...

Fire crew prepare for a landing by the helicopter from the air ambulance service. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British registered char...

Dr. Marius Rehn, from London's Air Ambulance, demonstrates a procedure on a medical dummy. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British regist...

Paramedic Nathan Ward and Dr. Marius Rehn (registrar in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care) on the Thames Embankment, across the river from the London Eye, eating a take-away during a break from their wo...

A helicopter landing at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British registered charity that operate...

An Air Ambulance helicopter in the air over London. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British registered charity that operates an air medic...

East London, with the Canary Wharf skyscrapers, seen from the helipad at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.

Dr. Marius Rehn, a Norwegian registrar in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, stands beside the Air Ambulance at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London H...

An Air Ambulance helicopter in the air over London. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British registered charity that operates an air medic...

A helicopter landing at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British registered charity that operate...

Medicine is dispensed to Syrian refugees by a doctor and nurse from a local NGO in the Bekaa Valley.

A helicopter landing at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British registered charity that operate...

Paramedic Nathan Ward (left) and Dr. Marius Rehn navigate the streets of central London during an emergency call out. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical S...

The red brick of Whitechapel's Royal London Hospital contrasts with the modern hospital building that opened in 2012.

A Air Ambulance helicopter taking off from the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. London's Air Ambulance, also known as London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), is a British registered c...

35 year old Devi, secretary of the Gauri Mahila Community Forest User Group and also a Female Community Health Volunteer, performs a routine post-natal check-up on a baby that she delivered 12 days ag...

Doctors operate on refugee Jean De Deiu (24) at the health post in Dula just hours after he was shot in nearby Central African Republic (CAR). Tens of thousands of refugees have recently poured into t...

Justine Imbida, approximately 30, has a wound, inflicted by an AK-47, cleaned and splinted at a hospital in Bili. The day before, she and her younger sister were shot over the nearby border in Central...

Doctors operate on Jean De Dieu Domba, 24, at the health post in Dula, hours after Jean was shot over the nearby border in Central African Republic. Tens of thousands of refugees have recently poured...

Alexandra Leonova, 91, pictured in her temporary accommodation at a collective shelter for people displaced by the conflict. Alexandra fled her home in Nikishino on September 28, 2014, after her house...