The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 27 March 2014 certified India as a Polio Free Country. This action of WHO made India one of the 11 countries of South-East Region to be free from Polio Virus
The official certificate received by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Union Health Minister in New Delhi. The Polio was eradicated from the country with the help of technical innovations like indigenous bivalent polio vaccines, close monitoring of polio programme and adequate domestic financial resources
India's victory over polio disease paved the way for polio-free certification for the South East Asia region of the WHO. The achievement has also made the South East Asia Region, fourth WHO region for being certified as polio-free. This certification was given by an independent commission under the WHO certification process. this region is a home for about of world's population. The WHO South East Asia region has 11 member counties namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste
Other regions to be certified as the WHO Polio-Free Region are:
The official certificate received by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Union Health Minister in New Delhi. The Polio was eradicated from the country with the help of technical innovations like indigenous bivalent polio vaccines, close monitoring of polio programme and adequate domestic financial resources
India's victory over polio disease paved the way for polio-free certification for the South East Asia region of the WHO. The achievement has also made the South East Asia Region, fourth WHO region for being certified as polio-free. This certification was given by an independent commission under the WHO certification process. this region is a home for about of world's population. The WHO South East Asia region has 11 member counties namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste
Other regions to be certified as the WHO Polio-Free Region are:
- Region of the Americas - certified as WHO Region in 1994
- Western Pacific Region - certified as WHO Region in 2000
- European Region - certified as WHO Region in 2002
With, this certification to the South-East Asia Region, now about 80% of world's population lives in the Polio-Free regions.
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