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Polio free year, India’s greatest public health achievement: WHO [1]

The United Nations and leading world organizations celebrated India’s first polio free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, termed it as the “greatest public health achievement” of India, the Bill Gates, of Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation described it as a major milestone in the global fight against polio.

Publication Date: 
13/01/2012
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
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India [3], Polio [4], WHO [5], Diseases [6], Children [7], Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare [8], Uttar Pradesh [9], Bihar [10], West Bengal [11], UNICEF [12], Pakistan [13], Afghanistan [14], Nigeria [15], Immunisation [16], Child Health [17], Health [18]
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