Polio: Victim takes up eradication campaign

  • 06/07/2008

  • Statesman (Kolkata)

In an effort to propagate the message that polio drops should be administered to all babies, members of Rotary International today took Mr Gautham Lewis, a victim of polio and an ambassador of the organisation and made a door-to-door polio eradication campaign in parts of Nonadanga, Metiabruz, and Topsia today. The members of the Rotary Club believe that Mr Lewis could be the best person to inspire parents to administer polio drops to their children after birth. Mr Lewis, an NRI and a victim of polio has been staying in the city for the past week attending the polio eradication movement organised by the Rotary Club. Being a victim of polio, he himself feels the trauma a polio-affected person has to undergo and so he was here in the city to make parents aware that there is a need to give polio vaccination to their wards. n SNS