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UN working with Yemeni warring parties to prepare fragile health syste
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Sana'a, April 13 (Sputnik/ANI): The United Nations system is working closely with warring sides in Yemen to prepare its hugely fractured health system and existing polio and cholera surveillance mechanisms for the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the embattled nation aft
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New Polio cases amid Covid-19 outbreak in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 30 (ANI): While health authorities in the country are finding it difficult to deal with a sudden spike in the number of coronavirus patients, several new cases of poliovirus have been reported in Pakistan, worsening the current health crisis.
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India has tremendous capacity to combat COVID-19: WHO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 24 (ANI): The executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael J Ryan, on Tuesday said that India has a tremendous capacity to deal the coronavirus outbreak situation as it has experience of eradicating two pandemics, namely small-pox and polio.
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Polio patient in Dantewada serves as health worker combating challenges
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India], Mar 8 (ANI): Ganga Shandilya, a polio patient, has dutifully played the role of a health worker for over 32 years in the remote villages of Dantewada.
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Polio vaccinators mistaken for conducting NPR, held hostage by residents i
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 27 (ANI): Members of a polio vaccination team of health department officials were allegedly held hostage by the locals on suspicion that they were collecting data for the National Population Register (NPR).
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More than 19 lakh children administered polio vaccine in J&K
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Srinagar [Jammu and Kashmir], Jan 23 (ANI): Directorate of Family Welfare, MCH and Immunization on Wednesday said that the recent Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme has succeeded in achieving 100 per cent coverage of target population in Jammu and Kashmir as 19,85,021 children in the age bra
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Spend 10 minutes daily on social media to impart medical knowledge: IMA Ke
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Jan 21 (ANI): In an effort to make people aware about medical fake news, Indian Medical Association (IMA) in Kerala has urged doctors to spend at least 10 minutes daily on social media to impart authentic medical information.
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Pulse Polio campaign organised in J-K's Doda
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Doda (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Jan 20: As many as 76,000 children below the age of five years were administered oral polio drops across the district to safeguard them from the crippling disease, during a two-day campaign which started here on Sunday.
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Amit Shah meets party workers at Union Minister Pralhad Joshi residence in
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hubballi (Karnataka) [India], Jan 19 (ANI): After administering polio drops to a child at Union parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi's House in Hubballi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday met BJP party workers.
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Puducherry CM administers polio drops to children
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Puducherry [India], Jan 19 (ANI): Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Sunday administered polio drops to a child on the occasion of the Pulse Polio Day here.
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Southern Railways sets up counters in Kerala to administer polio drops
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Jan 19 (ANI): On the occasion of Pulse Polio Day, Southern Railways has set up counters across the state to administer polio drops to children below the age of five.
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Amit Shah administers polio drops to child in Hubballi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hubli (Karnataka) [India], Jan 19 (ANI): On the occasion of Pulse Polio Day, Home Minister Amit Shah administered the polio drops to a child here on Sunday.
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