Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 24: Rotary Club Akhnoor- a social & voluntary organization of Rotary International observed World Polio Day today at Akhnoor.
The function was held at Government Girls Middle School Akhnoor which was attended by ZEO Akhnoor Nazreen Akhtar as Chief Guest School Incharge Neeta Jamwal, CHO Kamal Lal as well as Rtns Rameshwar Pawar, Anoop Gupta, Aman Gupta, Ashok Gupta, Kewal Gupta, Ranjeet Gupta, Rajesh Bhalla, Rajesh Gupta, Sunil Sharma, Vijay Bral and students of Interact Clubs of Little Hut High School, Chander Bhagha High School, Government Boys Middle School Akhnoor besides students, Schools Staff, Hospital Staff & citizens of the town.
The function was started with the Welcome address by Rtn President Ashish Mahajan. Speaking on the occasion Rtn Past Presdent Dr Romesh Kashyap told the audience that World Polio Day was estblished by Rotary International a decade ago to commemorate the birth of Dr Jonas Salk who lead the 1st team to develop a vaccine against Polio, a crippling and fetal infectious disease of children of age of 0--5 years which has no cure but can only be prevented by immunization. Use of inactivated Polio Virus Vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk and Subsequently widespread use of Oral Polio Vaccine developed by Dr Albert Sabin lead to establishment of Global Polio Eradication Intiative in 1988. As on 2016 GPEI has reduced Polio world wide by 99.9percent
It was also revealed that India has been certified Polio Free Country on 24th March 2014 by WHO but still Immunization Programm is continuing till the whole world becomes Polio Free. In the function a debate on "WORLD POLIO DAY was conducted wherein 4 students participated who were awarded & honoured by the club. |
