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%, …
After a major polio outbreak in 2006, it is for the first time that India has been able to stop the spread of polio virus for over seven weeks with not a single wild polio virus (WPV) case being reported from any part of the country till this Friday. The …
A meeting was held at the Collectorate hall to review preparations for Pulse Polio campaign in Dehradun scheduled to be organised on April 25. District Magistrate D Senthil Pandiyan presided over the meeting. The DM told officials that the Pulse Polio campaign was a national-level programme and no type of …
Rajahmundry, April 17: Health authorities are carrying out a survey to detect suspected cases of polio involving a large number of health workers in East Godavari. In the survey, the health staff, anganwadi workers and Asha (Accredited Social Health Activists) workers are visiting the villages to inquire about any symptoms …
In May, 2010, the World Health Assembly (WHA) is expected to endorse the aggressive new strategy of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to stop polio transmission. Earlier this year, the Executive Board of the WHA expressed strong support for finishing the job of polio eradication. They were encouraged by …
India has continued to report cases of wild poliovirus and acute flaccid paralysis throughout the 2000s. Indeed, in 2009 the numbers of both exceeded the totals for 2008, by 26% and 9.5%, respectively. Confirmed wild poliovirus cases are increasingly concentrated amongst Muslim children and localised in western Uttar Pradesh and …
Polio case in slum had govt in a tizzy Alarmed by the detection of poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio virus, in an infant here last week, the emergency three-day special pulse polio campaign launched in five districts of the Jammu division ended this afternoon. Over four lakh children in the …
New Rotary International president Kalyan Banerjee is the third Indian to occupy the chair A Tie-Up between the government and credible service organisations is the best way to get projects executed. These views were expressed by Kalyan Banerjee, who has been named president of Rotary International for 2011-12. Banerjee would …
K.S. Jacob Indian reality calls for regional research, local solutions and national perspectives rather than subservience to international approaches, which do not prioritise India's needs. Improved public health standards and the antibiotic revolution resulted in the conquering of infectious disease in the western world. Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic did dent …
Malda, March 15: A five-month-old girl died soon after being administered a dose of polio vaccine at a pulse polio booth in a village in Kaliachak yesterday. Another girl, the one-year-old Priya Karmakar, was admitted to a health centre in Gajole after she started vomiting yesterday. The girl had been …
Dumka, March 2: The polio spectre seems to be looming large on Santhal Pargana with doctors suspecting four new cases in Rajmahal and Uduwa blocks under Rajmahal sub-division of Sahebganj district. According to sources, the medical officer of Rajmahal sub-divisional hospital, Dr Alimuddin, and a doctor at Uduwa primary health …
The changing landscape of Ghaziabad in the National Capital Region, an apparent testament to the Indian economic boom with its shimmering malls and high-rise apartment blocks, hides another grim reality. With India reporting the highest number of polio cases (672 cases) in 2009 and Uttar Pradesh accounting for 544 of …
LUCKNOW: The bivalent polio drop seems to be working. Not a single case of polio has been reported from Uttar Pradesh till now. However, more than 700 suspected cases (those suffering from acute flaccid paralysis) have been reported from across the state. But detailed examination of their stool samples revealed …
In the capital to honour Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad with Rotary's Polio Champion Award and to participate in the national polio immunization launch, Ms. Rajashree Birla of Aditya Birla Group announced to donate additional Rs 5 crore to Rotary International for polio eradication campaign. With an earlier contribution …
The Union government has launched a new immunization polio campaign in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Though the Delhi government has already a programme of polio drops, the central government has chosen the city for the fresh vaccination programme as four cases of polio
NEW DELHI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday launched the bivalent oral vaccine against polio in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to mark the national immunisation day. The vaccine was launched in Bihar last month and offers protection from the P1 and P3 types of polio …
ABOUT 65 lakh children in the State were administered pulse polio drops in the second phase of the immunisation drive on Sunday. Polio drops would be administered to the left-out children over the next two days. The second phase was launched by the Mayor of Chennai M Subramanian by administering …
The Uttar Pradesh government has drawn up a scheme to pay parents for getting their children immunised against polio, measles, TB and other diseases. Planned under the National Rural Health Mission, the scheme is meant to strengthen routine immunisation in the state
