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WHO commends India's polio free year
Friday January 13, 2012 08:54:59 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The World
Health Organisation has commended India's one year of being a
'polio free nation', calling it a major achievement.
"India's success is arguably its greatest public health
achievement and has provided a global opportunity to push for the
end of polio," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said in a
statement.
"Stopping polio in India required creativity, perseverance and
professionalism. The lessons from India must now be adapted and
implemented through emergency actions to finish polio everywhere,"
Chan said.
The statement, however, added: "There remains no room for
complacency. India must maintain sensitive surveillance and high
childhood immunity against the wild polio virus to guard against
any importation of polio until eradication is achieved globally".
Jan 13 marks one year of no polio cases being reported in the
country.
The last new polio case in India was reported Jan 13, 2011,
involving a two-year-old girl in West Bengal. In 2010, there were
42 cases as compared to 741 in 2009. In 1991, there were 6,028
cases and in 1985 there were 150,000.
India has spent more than Rs.12,000 crore on the Pulse Polio
Programme. The country took a lead in introducing bivalent polio
vaccine (bOPV) in January 2010.
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