There were more cases of wild ­poliovirus in 2018 than in 2017. Should we be discouraged? No, not at all. We’ve always expected the number of cases to fluctuate ­somewhat as we get closer to zero. We’ve gone four straight

Teamwork came to the fore when all the 68 Rotary clubs of D 3231 participated in a mega car rally to mark World Polio Day on Oct 24. DG K Jawarilal Jain led from the front as over 1,000 cars took part in the event covering ­Tiruvannamalai,

With just 11 confirmed polio cases so far in 2017, the world is on the brink of eradicating polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once paralysed hundreds of thousands of children each year. To recognise this historic progress, Rotary clubs worldwide hosted events in conjunction

Rotary District 3291, in association with D 5240 (USA), organised an International Polio Summit — Life after Polio — at Kolkata. The event, chaired by Rotary International PolioPlus Committee Chair Michael McGovern, deliberated on topics such as Rotary’s efforts in eradicating the disease in the remaining three countries,

The Rotarians of RC Katwa, D 3240, have successfully immunised 95 per cent of the children of Katwa in Bardhaman district of West Bengal in the last NID. “It was a huge challenge. We had to break stiff resistance from a section of the people in a

Over 6,000 school students created a mega human image of ‘Polio Free India’ at the Hindu College,