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Hopeful yet vigilant India marks a year without polio
Friday January 13, 2012 08:50:05 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: With a
'zero-polio' record in the last one year, India Friday carried its
fight against the disease to hospitals and health care centres
across the country where parents brought their children for
vaccination. Union health minister Ghuman Nabi Azad said the
country is vigilant yet alert.
"We are excited and hopeful, at the same time vigilant and alert,"
Azad said in a statement. Jan 13 marks one full year when the
country has reported no new polio case.
The country has spent more than Rs.12,000 crore on the Pulse Polio
Programme. It took a lead in introducing bivalent polio vaccine (bOPV)
in January 2010.
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, which accounted for nearly
half of the world's polio cases. In 1991, there were 6,028 cases
and in 1985 the number stood at 150,000.
"The progress is indeed remarkable, considering that in 2009,
India with 741 cases accounted for nearly half the global cases.
This giant leap towards polio containment in a short span of two
years is an endorsement of India's tireless and persistent
efforts," Azad stressed.
Experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the country
should take the fight against the disease ahead with its vigilance
programmes and national immunisation programme.
"India should be most concerned about complacency, which can undo
a lot of the strong progress that has been achieved," said Hamid
Jafari, the project manager of the WHO-National Polio Surveillance
Project (NPSP).
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