India Declared polio free

India Declared polio free

With no case of polio for the last three years, India is now declared polio free by the World Health organization on 14 January 2014. Three years is the gestation period for the WHO to declare a country polio-free.

The planning for the next year is to replace polio drops with injectable IPV(inactivated polio vaccine) in high risk-states. The high risk states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar and Haryana, will have polio vaccines instead of the oral drops for children.