Polio: Mission not Accomplish !

     Polio short for poliomyelitis is a disease that can damage the nervous system and cause paralysis.

•  Polio [PO-lee-oh] is a viral disease that can damage the nervous system and cause paralysis.
• The polio virus enters the body through the mouth, usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.
• Polio is preventable by immunization.

India is one of the country in the list of only four countries of the world where polio disease still exits and other countries are Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. To eradicate polio from India, polio campaign was started by government almost one and half decade ago, but till date cases’ of polio victims emerge every year from different part of country which stretching polio campaign further, it point towards failure of polio eradication movement in India .Contributors to the Polio campaign are Central Government, World Health Organisation (W.H.O.), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Rotary International but despite after such a long period of campaign against Polio, Why India still not able to obsolete the disease? How to eradicate polio from India? If need directions and motivation then we can take leaf out of china’s strategy to eradicate polio which they did in just one day by announcing national holiday and then every kid across the country vaccinated from polio, we can say below coded reasons for our failure against polio campaign -

• Government not considering Polio disease seriously to eradicate it from country.
• India public not aware of this disease.
• Migrant labour from backward area of India and their movements from one area to another could be reason.
• Illiteracy can be the reason as despite Government initiatives to aware countrymen through publicity in both forms of media print and electronics still people not able to get advantage of this to end polio from country.

Polio Reason - The polio virus lives in the throat and intestinal tract of infected persons. The virus enters the body through the mouth, usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. Objects, such as eating utensils, can also spread the virus.
Signs and symptoms of Polio - The polio virus attacks the nerve cells that control muscle movements. Many people infected with the virus have few or no symptoms. Others have short-term symptoms, such as headache, tiredness, fever, stiff neck and back, and muscle pain. More serious problems happen when the virus invades nerves in the brain and causes paralysis of the muscles used in swallowing and breathing. Invasion of the nerves in the spinal cord can cause paralysis of the arms, legs, or trunk.
    Government across country does Polio Vaccinations which spread over three days and first day public comes to booths with kids at the age of 0 to 5 years and next two days kids get vaccinations if they miss ,through door to door initiatives. This year in the month of January and February two phases’ of three days campaign were held, and March 7,8,9 are announce for polio vaccinations but this time instead of waiting on booths officials will visit houses’ all three days of Polio campaign. Hopefully with this gesture of government, it will produce desire results against Polio campaign and would be helpful to obsolete Polio from India.