Mop-up round against polio on April 19

Greater Noida, April 13

The detection of a polio case near Surajpur on Friday has caused ripples in UP

NEW DELHI A 14-month-old has become the second victim to be detected with polio in the city this year. However, the reason of the infection is yet to be known.

The present government and the ones before it have neglected the health sector, as the National Family Health Surveys show.

WHAT is the state of the nation

Polio has crippled Ila and has stunted her dreams of becoming a teacher.

But she found a new meaning to her life when she came to the sixth polio surgery camp today organised by a charitable body, Sri Krishna Seva Dham Trust, at Marwari Bhavan in Harmu Road.

Governor Syed Sibtey Razi inaugurated the two-day free camp.

MUMBAI: The Pulse Polio drive on Sunday covered 68% of the 13.25 lakh children below the age of five years, said civic officials.

A polio scare was triggered in Dumka after 181 children with deformed limbs arrived in the district from Soraiyahat block last night.

The Pakistan government and the World Bank (WB) signed two agreements for polio eradication on Saturday.

The WB initially provided the total amount under both the agreements amounting to $67.84 million to the Health Ministry as a credit in 2007. However, under a buy-down arrangement the WB converted the credit into grant with the support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Amritha Alladi

CHENNAI: In the latest push towards the eradication of polio in the face of a new round of incidence in parts of the world including in certain States of India, community leaders have been urged to convince their followers of the safety and importance of polio vaccination.

LUCKNOW: Several thick government files with yellowed pages are piled up high inside the tuberculosis cell of the state health department giving it the `normal'look of any government office. But the environment hasn't dampened the thinking process of the people working in this cell.

EDITORIAL (March 22 2009): Unicef programme specialist Dr Muhammad Rafiq has said at the inaugural ceremony of the March 2009 anti-polio vaccination round at Peshawar that Pakistan remains at the top of the list of polio endemic countries, in remarks that should be taken very seriously by the government. He has called for urgent measures to root out this grave public health menace.