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Fawad Khan booked for refusing anti-polio drops for his daughter
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Feb 20 (ANI): Pakistani actor Fawad Khan was booked after his family refused polio vaccination for his daughter on Wednesday.
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Health ministry postpones polio immunisation programme
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 25: The Ministry of Health has released a statement saying that the National Immunisation Day (NID) which was scheduled for February 3 has been postponed. The rescheduled date of NID will be convened soon.
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Polio vaccines safe and effective assures Centre
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 5 (ANI): Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday refuted rumors being spread about virus being found in polio drops meant to be given to children up to five years and reassured that polio vaccines being used in India are safe and effective.
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Meet the Malala of Afghanistan-Breshna Musazai
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct 4 (ANI): Paralysed by polio in one leg and shot by Taliban terrorists in another, Breshna Musazai is a living example of resilience.
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Two polio vaccinators shot dead in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Quetta (Balochistan) [Pakistan], Jan. 23 (ANI): Once again polio vaccination team has been targeted in Quetta city of Pakistan.
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2nd ranked Para powerlifter Sakina ignored for CWG 2018
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 10 (ANI): Para athlete Sakina Khatun, who was struck down by polio when she was just one-and-a-half years old, will not represent India at next year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia despite being at the number two spot in CWG and Asian rankings.
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Italy grants 4.3 million Euros to Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Nov.14 (ANI): Italy has granted 4.3 million Euros to Afghanistan to eradicate polio and improve the nutritional status of children under the age of five.
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Have to make clubfoot history by 2022: President Kovind
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 1 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday urged all to take a national resolve that by 2022, every child born with clubfoot gets access to treatment as soon as the condition is diagnosed.
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Andrew Garfield feels privileged to play polio afflicted Robin Cavendish
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], October 29 (ANI): Hollywood actor Andrew Garfield, who will be seen playing the real-life polio patient Robin Cavendish in 'Breathe', is proud to play the role and for getting the chance to understand the man.
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10 million lives saved by 1962 breakthrough: Vaccines
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Mar. 5 (ANI): Nearly 200 million cases of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, adenovirus, rabies and hepatitis A -- and approximately 450,000 deaths from these diseases -- were prevented in the U.S. alone between 1963 and 2015 by vaccination, researchers estimate
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Bill Gates meets Sharif, appreciates Pakistan's effort in eradicating
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Davos [Switzerland], Jan. 20 (ANI): Microsoft founder and head of the Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates met Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos on Thursday and appreciated the country's effort in eradication of polio.
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Free of cost Artificial Limb distribution camp on 'World Disability D
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 3 (ANI): On the World Disability Day, Narayan Seva Sansthan- a charitable organization that runs one of the largest charitable hospitals in the country for Specially-abled people, in particular polio and by birth disabled, is organising an Free of cost Artificial Limb
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