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%, …
State's second polio case this year detected in powerloom town that has a huge migrant population, child had not been immunised in UP Fourteen-month-old Raj Gupta sleeps soundly on the hospital bed at the Indira Gandhi Memorial hospital, Bhiwandi, even as his mother eyes well up at mention of polio. …
Polio is injurious and dangerous for human life and it is endeavour of present Government to eradicate the same from our province at all costs. This was stated by Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah while talking to media on the occasion of POLIO FREE WALK organised by …
The Sindh health department will field its own team of senior officials to monitor the special anti-polio vaccinations to be administered to children in various districts of Sindh during the mop-up campaign planned to be conducted in 14 districts of the province from May 26, it was learnt on Wednesday. …
A polio case has been reported in the district, which is the first this year in the Frontier province. The victim is 18-month-old Niamatullah, son of Musa Jan, of the Azakhel village, Nowshera. Health officials said the stool sample of the child had been sent to laboratory on April 27, …
While Sindh has become a key battleground for the eradication of polio from the country, its newly inducted Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed on Thursday declared that an increase in polio cases was mainly due to the use of polluted water. The minister asked the district governments to ensure supply …
Sindh, which has planned another mop-up campaign in 14 of its districts after reports of seven confirmed polio cases during the current year, is also anxious to learn more about the efficacy of oral polio vaccines (OPVs) administered to thousands of children up to five years old in the province …
The Expanded Programme on Immunisation, Sindh chapter, has finalised all arrangements for a three-day polio eradication campaign being launched on Tuesday in the province. Children, from newborns to five-year-olds, will be administered the oral anti-polio vaccine at their doorsteps in the sub-national immunisation days. EPI officials have requested parents to …
Hearsay among people in Uttar Pradesh has led to the high incidence of polio in the state. A team which went to administer polio drops to under five children here, met with a considerable resistance from parents. "These drops will make our children paralytic',said some parents in Harola village. Dr. …
The National Highways and Motorway Police (NH∓) will facilitate district polio teams in the administration of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to the children travelling on intercity routes at toll plazas within their jurisdictions across the country on national and sub-national immunisation days. Sources privy to the anti-polio activities in the …
Only one case of P-I wild virus has been reported this year in Delhi against two cases of polio reported in 2007 whereas 866 cases were reported at the national level during 2007, said Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launching another new phase of the Special Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation …
Polio resurfaces in Pakistan: Efforts to eradicate polio appear to have taken a blow following confirmation of a third case in Pakistan's Sindh Province this year. The disease was confirmed in a 16-month-old child in Shikarpur district, Sindh, on March 21. Following this, the health ministry launched a three-day campaign …
Four 10-month-old babies died within minutes of being administered an antimeasles vaccine at two medical camps in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvallur district on Wednesday. Three girls died at a centre in Pennalurpettai village, about 75km from Chennai. The fourth, a baby boy, died after getting the shot in Venkatapuram village near …
: With the detection of polio virus prevalence in the environs of a couple of towns, health workers in the city will undertake their polio eradication efforts during a three-day immunisation drive being launched across the province on Tuesday. About 2,245,243 children will be administered oral polio vaccine in the …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit expressed confidence that polio would soon be eliminated from the Capital. She said this at the launch of another phase of special intensified pulse polio immunisation programme (PPIP) today in the Capital. She also administered polio drops to children. The Chief Minister exhorted parents to administer …
The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), Sindh, has decided to refocus the routine immunisation efforts to realise the goal of making Sindh a polio free province. Talking to Dawn on Tuesday, the Project Director of EPI, Sindh, Dr Salma Ali, claimed that efforts were being intensified to contain the polio …
The fresh detection of a polio case in a 16-month old boy in Shikarpur district has upset the immunisation campaigners and others associated with the programme, said sources privy to the expanded immunisation programme. The bigwigs at the helm of affairs of the polio-drop administration programme considered the detection of …
As doctors struggle to eradicate polio worldwide, one of their biggest problems is persuading parents to vaccinate their children. In Belgium, authorities are resorting to an extreme measure: prison sentences. Two sets of parents in Belgium were recently handed five month prison terms for failing to vaccinate their children against …
Officials with the National Polio Surveillance Programme today said the first polio case detected in the Capital this year could have come from Bihar. The 14-month-old Baby Gulnaaz from Kirti Nagar was detected with the P1 strain poliovirus, known for its propensity to cause large outbreaks. According to government records, …
The first reported case of a deadly polio strain in a girl from a Delhi slum underscores how the challenge of health has become similar to a war in more ways than one. The public policy response needed is much more complex than that to the danger posed by an …
The health ministry is planning an emergency mop-up operation that will vaccinate three lakh children living in and around Kirti Nagar against polio to contain further spread of the deadly P1 strain of the virus in Delhi. The decision was taken after the country's first PI strain of wild polio …
