On the eve of World Polio Day, India, which was officially removed from the list of polio-endemic nations, was today urged to sustain the polio eradication drive "as the threat still persists".
India recorded its last polio case in January 2011 and was officially removed from the list of polio-endemic nations earlier this year.
In the South-east Asia region, India is midway to being certified a polio-free region in 2014, contingent upon the fact that no polio cases are reported till 2014.
"Multiple challenges still prevail and the threat of spread could be accentuated by complacency, cross-border importation, diminishing funds and the misperception that the polio threat has ceased," Deepak Kapur, chair of Rotary International's India National PolioPlus Committee (INPPC), said.
"Any attempt to drop or dilute preventive measures and safeguards due to financial constraints or other challenges could allow the virus to rebound by 'importation' through an endemic nation.
"Given this danger, the national immunisation campaigns need to be sustained until global eradication is a reality. That is the best way to safeguard the wellbeing of susceptible children against the crippling effects of polio," he said.
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