Picturing health: 35 years of photojournalism at WHO
PHOTO FEATURE ON POLIO
Ill but active: Lao People's Democratic Republic, 1968
WHO/Jean Mohr
For this photo report, Jean Mohr visited the Mahosot hospital in Vientiane. He photographed the variety of physical therapy and rehabilitation programmes aimed to allow patients to make the transition back to independent life. His images were published in 1968 under the title Infirmes mais actifs.
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