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%, …
More than two lakh children were administered Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) in the pulse polio campaign on Sunday. The campaign was inaugurated by Principal Secretary (Medical and Health) Pradeep Shukla at Bal Mahila Chikitsalaya in Indira Nagar by administering polio drops to a child. Shukla also inspected the polio booths …
Chandigarh: Polio drops were administered to more than 80,000 children in the city on Sunday. About 463 stationary booths and 66 mobile teams were also put up by the Chandigarh Administration Health Department. As many as 2,100 personnel belonging to the Department of Health, Education and Social Welfare, various nursing …
ISLAMABAD (January 29 2009): The government of Japan will provide US $4.7 million to United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) for eradication of polio in Pakistan. These funds would be used to procure 26 million doses of oral polio vaccine during 2009 that constitutes seven percent of the total requirement. A …
The endemic western UP region, epicentre of all polio outbreaks, remained free of P1 for a record one-and-a-half years till mid-2008 Bihar recorded only 3 new cases of the P1 virus in 2008 New injectible polio vaccine (IPV) to be used to eradicate the disease India may still be a …
NEW DELHI: The world's first bivalent vaccine - that will protect children against both P1 and P3 strains of polio virus - is being tested in India. Around 900 newborn children in Indore, Chennai and Pune have already been given two doses of the oral bivalent vaccine (BOPV). Scientists at …
VELLORE: The oral polio vaccine (OPV) that is administered to children in the 0-5 age group during the annual pulse polio campaigns in the country is perfectly safe and does not cause immediate illness or death, according to T. Jacob John, Emeritus Professor of Virology of the Christian Medical College …
by Satnam Singh Poliomyelitis was targeted for eradication by 2005. Regretfully, in 2008 India and Nigeria were the only two countries left still reporting indigenous cases, 517 and 758 respectively. In the latter part of 2008, Pakistan and Afghanistan did not report any cases and are looking forward to consolidate …
Smriti Singh | TNN New Delhi: Almost a decade after a five-month-old girl died after receiving polio drops under the pulse polio campaign initiated by the Delhi government, a trial court has directed the government to pay a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the family of the girl. Pulling …
Though no polio case has come to light in this satellite town adjoining the national Capital, Noida and other areas of western Uttar Pradesh continue to be danger zones for polio. The state
Chief Minister P.K. Dhumal has urged the people to extend full cooperation in the effective implementation of the pulse-polio campaign to ensure polio eradication. He administered anti-polio drops to children below the age of five year as part of the 14th pulse polio immunisation campaign here today. He said 7.24 …
KATRA :for the 3-day intensified Pulse Polio Immunization programme, 42 booths were setup in Health Block Katra of district Reasi which also includes four booths setup on the track of Mata Vaishno Devi at different locations for the facilities of visiting pilgrims. On these booths about 6700 children were administered …
1.60 lakh children to be given the drops in Pudukottai NAGAPATTINAM: About 1.44 lakh children, below the age of five, in the district would be given polio drops during the Pulse Polio campaign to be held on December 21 and February 1. Collector M.Jayaraman, speaking at a coordination committee ahead …
DINDIGUL: A total of 2.30 lakh children in the age group of 0-5 years will be immunised during the pulse polio programme to be held on December 21 and February 1. Twenty-five mobile medical centres will be set up to cover the children residing in remote and inaccessible areas, according …
An official of the Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI) has said that during the polio vaccination campaign in the NWFP 267,269 children could not be immunised in parts of the province.
EDO health Dr Bux Ali Pitafi has announced that a anti-polio campaign will be launched in the district from November 24 to 26 to administer anti-polio drops to 301,697 children up to the age of 5 years. At a press conference held here on Sunday, he said that 635 mobile …
The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 on Primary Health Care together with the slogan of Health for All by 2000 AD is considered one of the most significant public health initiatives of the 20th century. The 30th anniversary of the declaration provides an opportune time to revisit its history and arrive …
