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%, …
A second polio case has been detected in G.B. Nagar district. The victim is a one-year-old child in Flauda village of Dadri while 21 new cases of P-3 have been reported in the state. The number of total polio cases has now gone up to 159 by including these latest …
Sindh reported its second polio case in a week, as onset of paralysis was confirmed in an 11-month-old boy of Sanghar district, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the province to eight and the country to 35 this year. A Secretary of the Sindh health department, Dr Abdul …
The number of polio cases increased from 32 in 2007 to 117 in 2008, Health Minister Aijaz Jakharani informed the National Assembly on Monday. The minister said 25 polio cases had so far been reported in 2009. He said low routine immunisation coverage; delicate security situation, especially in FATA and …
ROTARIANS of RI District 3230 which comprise Chennai, Vellore, Tirvallur, Kancheepuram and Thirvannamalai in association with Alma Mater, an NGO to eradicate polio, raised Rs 40 lakh towards the Polio challenge tossed by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Rotarian W Anand presented the a cheque for Rs 40 lakh to …
LUCKNOW: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam wants polio to be eliminated from the map of Uttar Pradesh. "I want to see UP free from polio," he said at a programme organised by Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University's Research Cell on Monday. It may be noted that despite efforts, polio has …
LUCKNOW: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam wants polio to be eliminated from the map of Uttar Pradesh. "I want to see UP free from polio," he said at a programme organised by Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University's Research Cell on Monday. It may be noted that despite efforts, polio has …
In an alarming development, the first-ever case of vaccine-derived polio virus Type 2 has been reported from Uttar Pradesh. The news comes at a time when the Government was planning to do away with administration of trivalent vaccine in the state because of the absence of Type 2 polio virus. …
As many as 30,000 children were administered anti-polio drops in rural areas of Islamabad on the first day of national anti-polio drive on Monday. Health Department officials said around 88,955 children will be administered anti-polio drops in rural areas of Islamabad during this three-day drive. Islamabad District Health Officer Dr …
Srinivas Sirnoorkar: GULBARGA: DH News Service Two decades ago public health officials and volunteers committed themselves to eliminating polio from the country by the year 2000. But nine years past the deadline, cultural suspicions and superstition among some Gulbarga families have made the eradication of polio far from assured. Children …
The fourth nation-wide three-day polio campaign of this year was launched here on Monday with an aim to expand the collective efforts to eliminate polio from the country. The drive against the polio was inaugurated by Federal Minister for Health Mir Aijaz Hussaing Jhakrani.
The closure of all the three government-run vaccine manufacturing units in the country in January 2008 has had a major implication on the immunisation programme of the country in 2008-2009. Not only has there been a shortfall of vaccine, the government target achieved has been far less than what was …
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. The health ministry was forced to get vaccines illegally from the very public sector manufacturers it suspended last year Shuvam Kumar …
The polio eradication programme in the country has taken a knocking again. From near-eradication in 2005 when only 66 cases were reported to 879 in 2007 and 559 in 2008, 89 cases have already been reported this year ahead of the July-September peak season. Worse, India is being blamed, along …
LUCKNOW: The crippling polio virus has inched closer to elimination in Uttar Pradesh. The fact was celebrated by the 20th India Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) meeting held last week. Key messages circulated during the meeting said that there was only one family of type-1 polio virus circulating in the endemic …
