Sanitizer given instead of Polio Drops: Doctor, 2 healthcare workers to face action for alleged negligence MD Bureau8 Feb 2021 9:00 AM ISTNagpur: Three staffers including a community health officer, ASHA worker, and Anganwadi Sevika will soon face action for allegedly administering...
Ensure oral polio vaccine for children below 5 years of age on January 17: Dr Harsh Vardhan Medical Dialogues Bureau9 Jan 2021 9:00 AM IST"Today, in spite of the fact that virtually all the countries in the world have eradicated polio, two of our neighboring countries still have cases of...
Scientists develop effective, safer and less costly polio vaccine Hina Zahid1 Feb 2020 5:15 PM ISTBethesda, Md. – As the world nears poliovirus eradication, the vaccines themselves have become the greatest threat. In response to global demand for...
Health Ministry postpones Polio National Immunisation Day Hina Zahid28 Jan 2019 9:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: The National Immunisation Day (NID) which was scheduled to be held on February 3 has been postponed to another date as per the recently...
Oral polio vaccine samples found adulterated: Health Minister Medical Dialogues Bureau13 Dec 2018 2:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: Two samples of a batch of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) were found to be adulterated and containing type 2 poliovirus by the Central...
India stands COMMITTED to Ensure Safety of Vaccines Medical Dialogues Bureau4 Oct 2018 10:15 AM ISTNew Delhi: There have been reports in a section of the print media mentioning that bivalent oral polio vaccine supplied by a particular manufacturer...
Srinagar: 12 detained for spreading rumours of death due to polio savita thakur thakur20 Jan 2016 11:24 AM ISTSrinagar: A day after rumours spread in the Valley that polio vaccination caused death of children, which resulted in worried parents rushing their...
India to switch to bivalent polio vaccine Meghna A Singhania17 Jan 2016 1:23 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 16 : With India remaining polio free for five years now, the government today said that it plans to switch to bivalent Oral Polio...
Available polio vaccines not optimal for safety: Study savita thakur thakur7 Jan 2016 12:44 PM ISTWashington: While the whole world is striving for polio virus eradication, a recent study has raised concerns about post-eradication manufacturing and...
Safer polio vaccine strains for post-eradication era developed savita thakur thakur2 Jan 2016 12:31 PM ISTLondon: Researchers have developed new polio vaccine strains that is particularly suitable for a post-eradication era as these strains appear both...
Sanofi launches injectable polio vaccine ShanIPV in India Pooja Bhatia Bhatia9 Dec 2015 9:52 AM ISTSanofi Group has announced the launch of its injectable polio vaccine (IPV) ShanIPV to be manufactured in India by its arm Shantha Biotechnics....
WHO, UNICEF support Myanmar's polio vaccination campaign savita thakur thakur1 Dec 2015 10:37 AM ISTThe World Health (WHO) Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) support Myanmar's Ministry of Health to conduct a polio...
