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%, …
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: A special polio immunisation campaign will be held across the State on November 15 to cover migrant children up to the age of five. The special immunisation drive would target children of workers coming from northern States such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and engaged in …
LUCKNOW: The type-1 polio virus could be on the verge of eradication, says a recent study conducted in Moradabad district of UP. The aim of the study was to evaluate the residual immunity gap among children in western Uttar Pradesh and adapt future strategies in this regard. It began with …
More than 200 countries, including poor ones like Bangladesh, have been able to eradicate polio from their soil, but the deadly disease continues to haunt India with at least 395 cases reported from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. What was considered to be a matter of solace for …
Maulshree-Seth Following success of sewage surveillance for wild poliovirus in Mumbai, the Centre is now planning to go ahead with a similar surveillance in Delhi. The surveillance was introduced through the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) in Mumbai in 2001 and since then, the city has been able to …
Chairman of the Chief Minister's Task Force on Polio and Communicable Diseases Control, Dr Asad Ashraf, has directed the Director General Health and the EDO Health Lahore to assign duties to the students and officials of medical colleges, attached with different towns of Lahore, in the forthcoming anti-polio campaign for …
The government would launch a pilot project in polio-affected areas of the country in order to create a database of every inoculated or vaccinated child. The database will have contact details of each child to verify if he or she has actually been immunised or not. The health authorities would …
MUMBAI: The monthly Pulse Polio drive, which began on Sunday, witnessed a drop of 3% in the number of children immunised, as compared to last month. While 66% children were immunised on the first day of the last drive, this month only 63% of children received the oral vaccine on …
Noida: The World Health Organisation and district health department, Gautam Budh Nagar, have confirmed that two new cases of polio have come to light in the district. The first case is from Sector-71, Noida while the second one is reported from Kalaunda village in Dadri. The Sector 71 case is …
Six polio cases have been reported in the Swat valley since vaccinations resumed on Monday, a health official told Daily Times on Tuesday. He said the disease was on the rise in the district as children had not been administered polio vaccines for the past two years. On Sunday, local …
For elimination of poliovirus in the metropolis, it would be ensured that 100 percent children are administered polio vaccine. This was decided at a meeting of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK). A statement on Tuesday said that the District Coordination Officer Javed Hanif Khan presided over the meeting. Representative …
For elimination of poliovirus in the metropolis, it would be ensured that 100 percent children are administered polio vaccine. This was decided at a meeting of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK). A statement on Tuesday said that the District Coordination Officer Javed Hanif Khan presided over the meeting. Representative …
LUCKNOW: Polio eradication in UP seems to have come across a double whammy this season. In a state where authorities are fighting hard against the sub-optimal efficacy of oral polio vaccine, the increasing challenge of diarrhoeal outbreaks is making things worse. The reason: polio is caused by `entero' virus that …
Rotary International director K.R. Ravi-ndran today pledged to era-dicate polio from the world soon. Ravindran, who took charge as the director of Rotary International on July 1, is the first Sri Lankan to be on the board of the international humanitarian service. Talking to reporters here today, Ravindran said:
''Joint participation of the private stakeholders with the government to take up the public cause will yield positive prospects,'' said Udupi Deputy Commissioner P Hemalatha. Speaking after inaugurating the district polio plus orientation Planning Meet and AIDS awareness and prevention seminar organised by the Rotary International District 3180 here, she …
Much of the so-called problems in the polio eradication programme in India pointed out by Rajib Dasgupta (EPW, 20 June 2009) have been known for years. At the same time, the article is silent about several critical issues. It is necessary to take cognisance of the larger political economy of …
As many as 49 cases of polio have been detected in Bihar, a report said. Most of the cases were found in Kosi belt, where due to flood the polio immunisation programme was hampered, the polio status report said. Out of the total detected cases, 16 are highly virulent
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday expressed concern over the increase in polio cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and asked the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry to closely monitor the situation while taking steps to eradicate the disease. Dr. Singh made the statement at a meeting …
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing concern over the re-emergence of polio cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday cleared implementation of the polio eradication strategy for three years till 2012 at an estimated expenditure of Rs 3,203.98 crore. Stating that the …
