IPPI campaign kicks off
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, January 20 2013 : The Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation (IPPI) campaign kick-started from today at the Directorate of Family Welfare Services here with Principal Secretary (Health & Family Welfare) Ram Muivah administering Polio drops to children below 5 years of age.

Speaking on the occasion as Chief Guest, Ram Muivah observed with a slight negligence on the parts of the parents, a child can become victim of Polio.

So, we need to get our kids immunized against Polio and at the same time different programmes and campaigns are needed until Polio is totally eradicated from the surface of the Earth.

He stated that there has been no new report of Polio cases in India for the last two years.

It is because of the joint effort of the public and the various Government agencies that no new cases of Polio have been reported from any part of the country in the last two years.

However, Polio is yet to be eradicated from the surface of the Earth altogether.

As such it would not be a wise decision to consider the disease as unimportant and irrelevant.

While informing that Pulse Polio Immunisation Programe is one of the most important programmes taken up by the Government of India for the welfare of its people, Ram Muivah appealed to the general public to give support and co-operation like before and help in achieving its goal of Polio free society.

Delivering the Presidential speech, Devesh Deval, State Mission Director, NRHM, stated that India is one of the fast developing countries in the field of providing health care facilities.

This has been shown from the fact that no new cases of Polio have been detected in the last two years.

To make the country more developed we need to make the children of the country physically fit and make them free from all sorts of diseases.

K Rajo, Additional Director of Family Welfare Department delivered the key note address of the campaign.

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