After remaining polio-free for 19 months, Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh has reported a case of P1 polio, sending alarm bells ringing in the health department.

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Vaccination Child Vaccine Immunization

Rotary International (RI) has blamed government agencies concerned with vaccination efforts responsible for the failure to eradicate polio from the country, despite funding of $26 million in Pakistan by the agency and the United Nations to make the worldwide anti-polio drive successful, Daily Times was told on Sunday.

Following reports on polio detection cases in Morigaon district, the Barpeta District Health Society has geared up immunisation activities to make the district polio-free.

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The Gulshan Town administration will launch a two-day anti-polio drive from July 28.

This was decided in a meeting presided over by TMO Shafiqur Rahman on Thursday. THO Dr Imdad, WHO representatives Dr Navid and Miss Erica, Unicef representatives Amir and Dr Shabbir, TFP Dr Abdul Malik and UC nazims attended the meeting.

The meeting decided to set up control rooms in all the UC offices. The TMO appealed to the parents to ensure administering of anti-polio drops to their children.

Fumigation drive

A new polio case has been found in Swat district, where local Taliban have been aggressively opposing the anti-polio campaign for about a year. Seven-month-old Tanzeela of Kabal was tested positive for polio on Wednesday. Officials associated with the anti-polio drive told Dawn that the infected child had not received a single dose of oral vaccine (OPV) because of Taliban's opposition to the vaccination campaign. With this case, the number of polio victims reported this year has increased to four

Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed wants the health department and international health organisations to take polio eradication campaigns more seriously and come up with viable plans to improve the situation in Sindh, where 10 confirmed cases of polio have been reported in first half of the year.

The state health department has decided to award a trophy to the police recruits of the IRB, Bhondsi, in recognition of their contribution to administering polio drops to kids during the pulse polio rounds in Gurgaon district, besides learning effective policing techniques.

In an effort to propagate the message that polio drops should be administered to all babies, members of Rotary International today took Mr Gautham Lewis, a victim of polio and an ambassador of the organisation and made a door-to-door polio eradication campaign in parts of Nonadanga, Metiabruz, and Topsia today.