Dear Shweta ji
Thank you for appreciating my education. Yes Immunisation was a paper for my "Preventive medicine" some decades ago, but thanks to you I looked at the Indian scenario again in detail, and assuredly the political cocoon holds a beautiful butterfly.
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Thank you for appreciating my education. Yes Immunisation was a paper for my "Preventive medicine" some decades ago, but thanks to you I looked at the Indian scenario again in detail, and assuredly the political cocoon holds a beautiful butterfly.
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https://twitter.com/ShwetaS02286609/status/1369060937966096388
The Pulse Polio Immunization Programme was rolled out in India on 2 October 1994, when India accounted for around 60% of the global polio cases. The last polio case in India was reported a decade ago in Howrah on 13 January 2011, and the country has been free of polio.
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National Immunization Days (NIDs) for polio eradication in India were conducted on Dec 9, 1995 and Jan 20, 1996. Children up to 3 yr age targeted and 87 million children covered. The target age was increased to 5 years in the next year and about125 million children vacinated.
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By 2012, measles campaigns completed in 137 districts of 9 states Arunachal Pradsh, Assam, Chatisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura targeting 27 million children. In five states Bihar, MP, UP Rajasthan ,Gujarat 110 million children targeted
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The first Multi Year strategic Plan (MYP) for Universal immunisation programme (UIP) in India was launched in 2005.
India released the first National Vaccine Policy in 2011. The policy provides guiding principles for functioning of immunization programme in the country.
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India released the first National Vaccine Policy in 2011. The policy provides guiding principles for functioning of immunization programme in the country.
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Polio,small pox, measles, diphtheria, typhoid, whooping cough has affected far more people (kids) in far more debilitating ways than corona. Eradicating these diseases has been a much greater challenge than handling corona
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I am not against the corona vaccination programme, in fact I actively support and also participate in it . I am against projecting it as a unprecedented achievement of the current government. I am against touting the "free vaccine for all" marketing strategy.
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The amazing vaccination programme in post Independence India is a great study in nation building and I suggest to have a look at the wonderful work done by the governments in the past 70 years, thanks to them we have an India free of small pox, cholera, polio today.8/8
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