Polio

March 01, 2024

Pulse polio immunisation drive on March 3; Statewide inauguration by Veena George

The volunteers would also visit homes, on March 4 and 5, to ensure that all children below five years have been administered the polio vaccine.

January 29, 2023
Polio-afflicted panchayat clerk transferred to first-floor office, seeks barrier-free option

Jaison, a native of Varappuzha in Ernakulam district, has given complaints to the Minister, panchayat director, Commissioners for Persons with Disabilities and other officials concerned, stating that there are no facilities for him to reach the first-floor office.
February 02, 2021
12 children given sanitiser drops instead of polio vaccine in Maharashtra

The incident took place at Bhanbora Primary Health Centre in Kapsikopri village on Sunday when the National Pulse Polio vaccination drive for children aged 1-5 years was underway.
January 25, 2021
24.49 lakh children in Kerala to get polio vaccine on Jan 31

Those arriving for the vaccination should follow the COVID-19 guidelines such as wear masks, sanitise their hands and maintain social distancing.
October 24, 2020
Face up to polio! Dr Thomas never allowed the disease to cripple his life

Thomas was infected with disabling and life-threatening polio when he was just one and a half years old.
May 30, 2019
Seven schools in Pakistan sealed for anti-polio propaganda

Attempts to eradicate the crippling disease have been seriously hampered by deadly targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militants, who oppose the drives, claiming the polio drops cause infertility.
May 03, 2019
Health workers attacked as rumours against anti-polio drive rages in Pakistan

This dangerous hostility to immunization teams flared last week after religious hardliners in the city spread false rumours, raising a scare on social media that some children were being poisoned and dying from contaminated polio vaccines.

October 01, 2018
Vaccine contamination forces tracking of recipient kids in UP

The Health Ministry has ordered a probe after traces of polio type 2 virus were found in some batches of oral polio vaccine (OPV) manufactured by a Ghaziabad-based company.

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