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%, …
Punjab, which was earlier likely to get polio-free status in 2014, has again turned out to be the high-risk province after sewage samples taken from a drain of Multan traced wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1). Collected on Sept 24 from the drain in Alipur, Multan, the samples were sent to …
PESHAWAR: This year’s polio cases have surpassed the last year’s tally of 58 to 62 with the relevant officials blaming it on the country’s failure to ensure quality polio vaccination, address immunisation refusal cases and reach all children under five years of age despite obtaining the $227 million loan from …
WHO has confi rmed an outbreak of at least ten cases of polio in Syria, where vaccination coverage has dramatically decreased during the civil war. Furthermore, wild-type poliovirus 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage and faeces from asymptomatic carriers in Israel since February, 2013. Tourists and travellers could bring …
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed optimism to transform Sindh into a Polio- free province of Pakistan by 2014. He said that polio eradication committees were actively busy to observe National Immunisation Days under the National Emergency action plan from provincial to district level and were also …
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed optimism to transform Sindh into a Polio- free province of Pakistan by 2014. He said that polio eradication committees were actively busy to observe National Immunisation Days under the National Emergency action plan from provincial to district level and were also …
The National Immunisation Policy maybe in for a change with oral polio vaccines (OPV) being replaced by injectable polio vaccines (IPV), thanks to a WHO-funded clinical trial and research undertaken by the paediatric department of Andhra Medical College (AMC) on 300 newborns. AMC is one of the four medical centres …
At least 22 people are suspected of having polio in Syria, the first outbreak of the crippling viral disease in 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. Most of those stricken with acute flaccid paralysis, a symptom of diseases including polio, in Deir al-Zor province are children …
Even as the threat of importing polio from polio-endemic countries looms large over India, which has not reported a single polio case since 2011, the government stands by the international health regulations and has decided that it will not put any travel-related restrictions on travellers visiting India from these countries. …
The authorities confirmed on Monday that three children were tested positive for polio in Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Two of the new cases belong to Frontier Region (FR) of Bannu and one to North Waziristan Agency, according to officials at National Institute of Health Islamabad. The three new cases from …
Over the last two years, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a private-public partnership that has reduced polio worldwide by 99% since its launch in 1988, has greatly expanded the coverage of polio vaccination in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria—the three countries where polio is still endemic and the success of …
The National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, has confirmed four more polio cases in Federally Administered Tribal Areas and one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Sunday. They said that three children from North Waziristan Agency and one each from Khyber Agency and Peshawar had tested positive for poliomyelitis. They …
The West Bengal government on Monday ordered a probe into the administering of Hepatitis B vaccine instead of polio vaccine at a medical camp in Hooghly district’s Goghat area that left 67 children ill on Sunday. Four health workers, including the camp supervisor and an Anganwadi worker, have been suspended. …
At least 114 children were hospitalised in Hooghly district after they were mistakenly given Hepatitis B vaccine orally instead of pulse polio drops. Six persons were suspended for the the lapse that triggered protests with angry villagers locking up health workersYesterday was pulse polio day so parents had taken their …
WHO on Tuesday lauded India’s efforts in eradicating polio and said the country has not reported a single case of polio in the last 30 months. “You did it. For 30 months you have not got a single case of polio,” WHO Director General Margaret Chan said while addressing the …
With an eye on polio free status from the World Health Organisation next January, the Health Ministry wants travellers from seven countries — three where polio is endemic and four which have seen recent outbreaks because of virus importation — to undergo polio vaccination before entering India, much like some …
A five-day district wide campaign has kicked off to administer anti-polio drops to more than 695,000 children. Around 1,365 polio teams are actively engaged in the campaign, launched on August 26, with the target to go door-to-door in all the tehsils and union councils of the district so that not …
Minister of State for Privatisation Engineer Khuram Dastagir Khan said that all out efforts were being made to provide basic health facilities to people. Addressing a ceremony here in Gujranwala‚ he claimed that the country would be made polio-free by 2014. He said that parents‚ civil society and teachers should …
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has released the first tranche of $32.6 million to the World Health Organisation to support the polio eradication programme in Pakistan. The amount released to WHO on August 13, which is one of the implementing agencies of the programme in Pakistan, is part of the …
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will utilize all available resources to maintain the polio free status of Islamabad and will try to achieve 100 per cent coverage during the up-coming Polio campaign. This was stated by Chairman CDA, Nadeem Hassan Asif, while chairing a meeting of Islamabad Polio Eradication Committee …
As 12 polio cases have so far been reported from Fata this year, Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has sent a note of caution to the federal government. In an in-camera briefing arranged by the federal government on Tuesday the officials explained that the hub of the polio cases in …
