Fresh polio case in Nanded distt

AURANGABAD: A fresh polio case has been detected in Nanded district, sending shock waves in Marathwada.
Completely taken aback by the adverse development, the government authorities have decided to undertake an intensive instant polio immunisation drive in nine districts adjoining Nanded.
Sheikh Wasim Sheikh Mehboob (4) of Nai Abdi Khatik galli in Himayatnagar was suffering from acute flaccid paralysis for over a fortnight.After conducting a series of tests, the health department on June 9 confirmed that Wasim had polio.
State health secretary Manmohan Singh had four days ago convened an urgent meeting of district collectors and district health officers from the nine districts, including some from the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, at Nanded to discuss the matter and take prompt corrective action.
Senior officials from Parbhani, Yavatmal, Hingoli, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Bidar and Medhak districts attended the meeting,where it was decided to give polio doses to all children from these districts on June 29 and 30 and July 3. A similar immunisation programme will be undertaken on August 3, 4 and 5.
Union health deputy commissioner Shobhen Sarkar and the World Health Organisation’s representative, Sunil Bahel, also visited Nanded following the detection of the polio case.
Chief executive officer of the Nanded zilla parishad, R.D. Bansod, told TNN that there was nothing abnormal in the detection of one polio case when over a lakh children have been immunised to the disease in the region.
Asked about the patient, Bansod said no clinical medicine was available for polio and that physio-theraphy was being administered to the child.