The corona vaccination programme is made to appear as an unprecedented achievement by Modi in the history of India.
One has to just open one's eyes and look at the history of this country since 1947 to see the outstanding work done in the country by the visionary @INCIndia Govts.
August 15 1947
* India was the small pox capital of the world
* TB was in epidemic proportions in India.
1948
* BCG Vaccine Lab set up at Kings institute, Guindy, Madras.
* First BCG VACCINE developed in India
1949
* BCG vaccination extended to all schools in India.
1962
* India started National Smallpox Eradication Programme (NSEP).
1973,
* efforts were successful in many parts and smallpox was largely restricted to Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar,
1975
* The last case of small pox reported.
1971
* 19 vaccine manufacturing units in public sector and 12 in private sector.
* units in India were producing
1.smallpox vaccines
2.diptheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT), 3.diptheria and tetanus (DT),
4.tetanus toxoid (TT),
5.oral polio vaccine (OPV)
1978
* Launching of National Immunization programme called Expanded Programme of Immunization (EPI) in with the introduction BCG, OPV, DPT and typhoid-paratyphoid vaccines.
November 19, 1985
* The EPI with some major changes relaunched as Universal Immunization Programme (UIP)
@INCIndia since 1947 1. Eradicated polio and small pox.
2 .Made India atmanirbhar in Vaccine devpt and production. 3. Made cold chain management indigenous and State wise managed. 4. Covered more than 80% for 5 contagious diseases thru UIP
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. 1/n
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. 2/n
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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