Neighbourly gifts from Pak, Afghanistan: Polio!

August 31, 2012 17:48

The government today said there was a threat of polio virus travelling to India from neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan which has led to intensification of surveillance in border states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir.

"The threat of polio continues as long as there is polio virus circulation in any part of the world," Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Sudip Bandyopadhyay said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.

The Minister said surveillance for polio has been intensified through active case search in the health facilities in Amritsar and other nearby districts and blocks of Punjab, Rajasthan, J&K and Gujarat that share a border with Pakistan.

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