The last event in India was published on January 13, 2011. After that, in 2014, the Southeast Asia region of India and WHO was polio-free.
However, the virus is still present in neighboring countries in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is why India is implementing many security systems to maintain its polio -free status.
These include promoting annual polio vaccinations and vaccinating children by promoting vaccine on the border to maintain their immunity and environmental surveillance from other countries.
In this regard, who is supporting the Government of India and is watching wild poliurus and vaccine-prolonged poliurus (VDPV) at the fair.
Under the environmental observation of the polio, the sewer (sewer) samples are tested to detect wild poliovirus and vaccine-prolonged poliurus (VDPV).
These viruses may be present in the stool of infected people, even if they do not see the symptoms of the disease. Symptoms of the disease include high fever, stiffness in muscles and acute flakesid paralysis (AFP), that is, severe comforting paralysis.
The K national public health support Natwork (WHO-NPSN) is helping to test the symptoms of acute flusid paralysis (AFP) to dismiss the possibility of polio infection.
It is possible to find the new polio virus or its international spread through environmental surveillance before developing the symptoms of paralysis.
Testing for resistance
The WHO-NPSN Field Unit in Prayagraj assisted the District Health Department in conducting environmental monitoring activities during the Mahakumba Mela.
The WHO team cooperated with the Health Department to identify the strategic location for the collection of samples, maintain the quality of the collected samples and send the exam on time. These samples were sent to the Sanjay Gandhi Masters Medical Science Institute for examination.
Environmental observation employed in pre-determined places is an endless process. These sites were identified for the collection of samples in the Gafat and Ghagha drain of Prayagraj.
Here the Health Department collected the Naqashi samples on the first and third Monday of each month under the supervision of the WHO-NPSN team. The team has a surveillance medical officer and a Field Observer.
The sewer samples were sent to the laboratory prescribed by the state capital Lucknow for environmental observation.
In addition to regular environmental observations for polio, additional sectors are being collected in January and February after five happy baths.
Nowadays the number of fans on the banks of the river has a significant increase.
The WHO has helped the Government of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India helped to develop a module in the collection of mass.
It provides the benefits of data collection and analysis in real times to know the outbreak of potential diseases and take steps.
Prior to the Mahakumba fair, this module was also used during the Aquarius Mela and Amarnath Yatra in 2019.
It is not easy to ensure public health protection in such large -scale religious events.
WHO-NPSN teams are supporting the state government under the supervision of polio and other vaccine diseases.
Who is employed to make every possible effort to prevent public health and spread the disease, to the surveillance of the disease to the vaccine and emergency response.
