What was the aim of pulse polio campaign

The WHO on February 24, , removed India from the list of countries with active endemic wild polio virus transmission. Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans EPRP have also been developed by states, indicating steps to be undertaken in case of detection of a polio case. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines. Make immunization available every day in large or busy clinics and hospitals; both in public sector and private sector establish-ments and at least one day a week in smaller clinics, health centers and small hospitals.

Instead of limited time periods in the day, immunization session should continue during the whole working hours. In every institutional birth, the infant should be given one dose of OPV before discharge. There is a need to involve all local area practitioners of medicine actively right from the planning stage of SIA. In UP only one immunization card per child should be used to record routine as well as pulse polio doses.

Immunization cards should have a column for NID and SNID along with other vaccines and proposed due dates filled in as declared every year. It should be clearly printed in bold letters in immunization cards "immunization is not complete if any pulse polio dose is missed up to the age of 5 years, just as in the case of routine immunization where not a single dose should be missed from the immunization schedule.

As house-to-house immunization follow-ing booth-based pulse immunization is adversely affecting the routine immuniza-tion services; house-to-house immuniza-tion should be discontinued as part of NID in all states except the high-risk states. There is need for having a fresh look at the need for house-to-house strategy in these states also.

We request the governments and con-cerned authorities to consider and implement these recommendations. The Committee had also made specific recommendations to the Branches and members of IAP, which may be found in the Editorial titled "Setback in polio eradication in India in Reasons and Remedies" in the March issue of Indian Pediatrics.

Pulse Polio is an immunisation campaign established by the union government to eliminate poliomyelitis polio in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against the polio virus. The project fights polio through a large-scale, pulse vaccination programme and monitoring for poliomyelitis cases. Sunday was the silver jubilee year of the Pulse Polio Vaccination Campaign. It began in Health department has specially invited youngsters, who were born in , at the polio booth to administer the polio drops.

With the global initiative of eradication of polio in following World Health Assembly resolution in , Pulse Polio Immunization programme was launched in India in Children in the age group of years administered polio drops during National and Sub-national immunization rounds in high risk areas every year.

The last polio case in the country was reported from Howrah district of West Bengal with date of onset 13th January Thereafter no polio case has been reported in the country 25th May