The progress towards eradication of poliovirus globally is one of the greatest success stories of the global health community. When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative started in 1988, polio paralysed more than 1000 children worldwide every day. Since then the global incidence of wild poliovirus cases has decreased by 99.9%, …
The country will receive the polio-free certification from the World Health Organisation today Health: It has been almost three decades since Bhutan recorded the last clinically compatible polio case. And for that achievement, the World Health Organisation (WHO) will award polio-free certification to the country today. Timely vaccination or immunisation …
The water samples from Larama area in Peshawar on Sunday tested negative for poliovirus, making brighter the chances of eradication of the virus in the country if government ensured vaccination of children in North Waziristan and Khyber Agency, officials said. They said that environmental samples taken from Rawalpindi had also …
New Regulation For Visitors To & From Polio-Endemic Nations Pune: India has made oral polio vaccine (OPV) mandatory for all travellers across all age groups visiting polioendemic countries such as Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria, Kenya, Somalia, Nigeria and Pakistan. The new regulation, which came into effect from March 1, is aimed …
As the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department continued to vaccinate children on the fifth round of the Sehat ka Insaf programme on Saturday, two more polio cases were reported in North Waziristan Agency and Frontier Region Bannu each. The new cases took the number of the children affected by polio this …
Environmental water samples taken from Shaheen Muslim Town in Peshawar have tested negative for poliovirus for the first time in the last 20 months. Officials said that Sehat Ka Insaf programme launched by the provincial government played significant role in the achievement. They said the area had emerged as polio-infected …
Mobile teams deployed to administer drops in remote areas Over 4.13 lakh children below the age of five were administered oral polio vaccine at the intensive pulse polio campaign held in Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts on Sunday. The vaccinations were administered to the children in 1,874 centres including 73 urban …
The second phase of National Pulse Polio Programme, 2014, began in the city today. Drops were administered to over 1.56 lakh children up to the age of five years in the district. The drive will continue till February 27. More than five lakh children from the city are to be …
WHO Representative to Pakistan Dr, Ni’ma Saeed Abid and Country Representative of UNICEF Dan Rohrmann visited Quetta to meet high government functionaries and discuss the risk of poliovirus circulation in the province. The UN officials met Chief Minister of Balochistan Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch and Minister of Health Rahmat Baloch. …
President calls for creating a polio-free world As India celebrates its victory over polio — completing three years without any case of the debilitating infection — the nation becomes entitled to polio-free certification by the World Health Organisation in March. On Tuesday, President Pranab Mukherjee received Rotary International’s highest award …
The National Institute of Health Islamabad confirmed a new polio case in North Waziristan Agency on Monday. “The country has registered 10 cases this year, all from North Waziristan Agency,” officials said. They added that North Waziristan Agency had recorded 44 cases, highest number of the 92 cases registered in …
India has completed three years without polio, a landmark achievement which would pave the way for a polio-free certification from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health ministry Monday said. The ministry said 40,000 reporting units, including health facilities, annually report 60,000 cases of paralysis to the polio surveillance network …
Congratulating the country for its monumental achievement, Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization, said, “India has shown the world that there is no such thing as impossible. This is likely the greatest lesson, and the greatest inspiration for the rest of the world.” Addressing the ‘India’s victory over polio’ …
Bangladesh is going to be diagnosed polio-free as the deadly disease is believed to have been fought out through countrywide child-immunisation drives. The World Health Organisation (WHO) certifies countries in this regard and officials said Bangladesh is going to get this certificate by next month (March) for the country’s outstanding …
Health authorities have said that no polio case has surfaced in the district for the last over one year and anti-polio drives if launched successfully will help to make the district free from the crippling disease. They said this while speaking at the meeting of district polio eradication committee on …
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - Islamabad—Capital Development Authority (CDA) has achieved 99% coverage of children under age of 5 years during the polio eradication campaign held from 20th to 23rd January 2014. According to CDA spokesperson, the results were evaluated by international agencies including World Health Organization (WHO) independently. Total …
KARACHI - Gunmen killed three health workers taking part in a polio vaccination drive in Karachi on Tuesday, prompting the provincial polio workers’ association to declare a halt to operations across Sindh province. Armed men also opened fire at a polio team in Oghi town of Mansehra killing one worker. …
HUBLI: On the first day of the pulse polio immunization drive, Dharwad district achieved around 93 per cent coverage which is the second highest in the state. Dharwad district was in the sixth to 10th position in the past few years. During the 2012-13 drive, the district achieved 89 per …
Three years ago on August 30, Prashuna (name changed) of Rautahat, who was 1 year and 10 months old then, was diagnosed with polio. Now she is four and struggles to cope with the crippling disease. Prashuna is the last reported case of polio and as a success in halting …
Parliamentary Secretary on Health Khawaja Imran Nazir has said that healthy Punjab will lead towards a healthy Pakistan and the target for making Punjab polio-free province would be achieved in 2014. He expressed these views while administering polio drops to the children at Mayo Hospital Paeds ward in connection with …
Bangalore: It’s been six years since the city recorded its last polio case, signalling a major achievement in eradicating the dreaded disease. But determined to ensure that it doesn’t rear its ugly head ever again, civic authorities here on Sunday launched a fresh round of vaccination drive. The last case …
