India achieved a tremendous feat by making the country Polio Free. For last one year, there has been no new case of Polio. Last detected case was on 13.01.2011. This is a historic positive achievement for India. The mass immunization programme with help from World Health Organization has been extremely successful. This has been possible with the support of people, health personnel, media mobilization, celebrity especially Amitabh's 'Do Boond Jindagi Ki' campaign. This is a great success story and we should be proud on this. We could achieve this despite several problems like feeble health infrastructure in Rural areas, problems in keeping vaccine in icebox, scepticism about the efficacy of medicine, backwardness and unawareness among people and communal suspicion about OPV. May the Government initiate such mass immunization programmes for other diseases.
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