Polio Sub-National Immunization Day 2022

To provide additional protection to children the Union Government has also introduced the injectable Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine into its routine immunization program.

Sub-National Immunization Day

The lessons learned and systems created under the National Polio Programme are being used to strengthen routine immunization and achieve more than 90% full immunization coverage.

State Governments and organizations like WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International and other partners have played a significant role in polio eradication and in improving routine immunization initiatives, the Ministry said.

India and ten other countries in the South-East Asia Region of WHO were certified polio-free on March 27, 2014. The last case of polio in the country was reported from Howrah, West Bengal, on January 13, 2011.

Source: IANS