Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa

Took part in NID Pulse Polio on 23^rd January 2011.

Rotary community, health, polio, RID 3170

Our club participated in the Pulse Polio Immunization Programme by helping man the booth organised by the Rotary Club of Vasco da gama. Our guests – the visiting GSE Team from RID 7260 also lent a helping hand. Gwenn led from the front. Over 250 children were administered drops at the booth. Dinesh, Amit B, Snehal, Lalit, Dr Jen and Avez also visited the booth.

Rotary community, health, International, polio, projects

The Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa participated in the Pulse Polio drive by helping staff the booth organised by the Rotary Club of Vasco da gama. Over 280 children were administered drops at the booth. Dinesh, Snehal, Lalit and Amit T attended.

Pulse Polio is an immunization campaign established by the government of India in 1994 to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating annually all children under age five against poliovirus.

Every child receives a dose of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), a live, attenuated virus which colonises the gastrointestinal tract. This virus competitively inhibits the wild, disease-causing poliovirus. Not only does this prevent pernicious infection in the host, it precludes transmission of the wild poliovirus to other hosts. Since poliovirus cannot survive outside a host for more than two weeks, theoretically it would be eradicated, resulting in the eradication of poliomyelitis.

Also see: http://www.rotary.org/en/SERVICEANDFELLOWSHIP/POLIO/Pages/ridefault.aspx

Rotary community, health, polio, projects