Refresher Training for Frontline Health Workers in Expanded ... - RHO

Role play #3
The Story of Wubalem and Tigist
Wubalem had just returned home from fetching water. She was tired as the
pump is far from her home. Her eldest daughter, Fatuma, was watching the
baby, Tefera.
Fatuma told her mother that she had heard an announcement that morning about
immunizations being held today in the kebele. Wubalem had already brought
Tefera to immunizations once before and the health worker told her the last
time that she should bring her baby back for more immunizations. Wubalem
quickly put Tefera on her back and went to the immunization place with the
immunization card.
On her way, she ran into her neighbor Tigist. She had a baby about the same age
as Tefera, though her baby had never received any vaccinations. Tigist told
Wubalem that she went to have her baby immunized because she heard that it
would protect her baby, but when she arrived some other women told her that
the health workers had already left. Tigist said that it probably wasn’t that
important anyway. But Wubalem remembered that the health worker said that
immunizing her baby was important. Not knowing who to believe, Wubalem
walked back home wondering what to do next...
...back at the health center, the nurse who went for outreach that day reported
to the center head about the days outreach activities. The health worker said
that he was disappointed by the low turnout of women:” mothers in that Kebele
just don’t understand the importance of immunizing their children”...
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