Indore: Aimed at immunising kids from polio and thus eradicating the disease from country, first phase of the year’s pulse polio campaign was launched across district on Sunday. Children below five years of age were covered in the first day of the campaign launched at booth level. According to acting chief medical and health officer (CMHO) Dr Praveen Jadia, the department was entrusted with a target of administering polio drops to 5,60,000 children in the district and it has achieved 80 per cent of the mark on the very first day of the campaign.
“More than 4 lakh children were administered polio drops at 3,600 booths set up by us with the help of paramedical and nursing students, and our health activists. Now, in the next two days, the activists will reach every door step to administer drops to those who couldn’t reach the booth on Sunday,” Dr Jadia said. The CMHO further enlightened that “Vaccination against polio started in the country in 1978 with Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). The last reported cases of wild polio in India were in West Bengal and Gujarat on January 13, 2011. On 27 March 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India a polio free country, since no cases of wild polio has been reported since then.”
IMA check-up 300 IMC employees to observe World Health Day
Indian Medical Association’s city branch organised a free health check up camp for employees of Indore Municipal Corporation in Sharda Kanya School at Bada Ganpati Square on Sunday. As many as 300 employees were checked-up by the doctors and their diagnoses for vitamin, sugar and other blood check-ups were done. IMA president Shekhar D Rao, secretary Dr Brijbala Tiwari, Dr Dilip Acharya and Dr Sanjay Londhe were present during the check up camp.
