MaximsNewsNetwork: 21 May 2010 - UNICEF: Senegal - UNICEFs new Executive Director Anthony Lake continued his week-long visit to Senegal, where he visited health centres in the Thies region, witnessed the daily efforts of community health workers to deliver medical care and handed out mosquito nets to mothers. Lake, who is in Senegal for a global conference on girls education and gender equality, also visited the Sampathe health center and spoke to health workers and women about health issues in the country. Senegal recently experienced a polio outbreak and there are currently 17 cases of the illness so there has been a country-wide campaign that aims to vaccinate the 2.2 million children under five in Senegal. He also spoke to women about healthcare and access to health information and medical facilities in while visiting the outreach projects in Keur Demba, a small village close to Senegals capital Dakar where they dispense vaccinations against polio, diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B. SOUNDBITE (Wolof) Anta Ndiou, Mother: I came to vaccinate my baby, for her to be in better health and shell grow up healthy. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director: We cant wait for health systems to work their way out from the centers while people are suffering in the communities, we have to be working in the communities as well, and it showed that there are very strong communities which can create local strong health care systems through community health care <b>...</b>