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
Cash Incentives Making People Suspicious Kounteya Sinha | TNN Frequent polio vaccination rounds is causing fatigue among vaccinators while cash incentives to mothers for getting their child vaccinated is actually making them suspicious about the repeated oral polio vaccine (OPV) rounds.
» Authorities in Pakistan have confirmed one more polio case in Sindh province, bringing the total number of cases to eight in 2008. The country has reported 19 polio cases in the past six
The India Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on Polio has recommended that the Health Ministry should focus on eliminating Type-1 polio virus this year and prepare to eradicate Type-3 virus transmission by 2009. "India is leading an intensified polio eradication effort against Type-1 virus and has recorded the lowest ever transmission level of the virus since 2007 till date,' said members of the expert group at their two-day meet which concluded on Thursday.
Continuous pulse polio rounds is one of the reasons contributing to poor coverage under other immunization drives in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has admitted after a first ever random sample study on such drives. It has also stressed on improved coverage of immunization in the slums, where nearly 60 per cent of the city's population lives.
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.
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.
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 People's Doctor's Forum, Karachi Division from Chief Minister House to Karachi Press Club this morning.
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, and the report confirmed the child positive for polio. The provincial health department has announced to conduct a three-day mop up campaign from May 22 in areas surrounding the Nowshera district, including Mardan, Peshawar, Swabi, Malakand region and the Khyber Agency.
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 of clean drinking water to their respective populations.
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 during national and sub-national campaigns.
