DHARAMSHALA: Dr. Tsering Wangchuk, Kalon for the Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration, inaugurated the Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation (IPPI) campaign 2015 at the Zonal Hospital, Dharamshala on 18 January. Mr. Sonam Dorje, the Tibetan Settlement Officer, accompanied Kalon Tsering Wangchuk.
Pulse Polio Immunisation programme was launched in India in 1995. Children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops during national and Sub-national immunisation rounds (in high risk areas) every year.
About 172 million children are immunised during each National Immunization Day (NID).
India has achieved the goal of polio eradication as no polio case has been reported for more than 3 years after the last case reported on 13 January 2011.
WHO on 24 February 2012 removed India from the list of countries with active endemic wild polio virus transmission.
In Himachal Pradesh, no new single case of Wild Polio virus has been reported since 2009.
Kalon congratulated the Chief Medical officer, Health officer, all the medical officers and staffs for achieving this feat and wished them success to sustain the achievement.
Kalon also urged all Tibetans to participate in these noble initiatives of the Indian government to immunise Tibetan children below the age of five from Polio.
