Report by Rashmi r Parida, Bhubaneswar: As
part of its continued commitment to social causes, Tata Steel has
taken several initiatives to provide healthcare services to the people
of Odisha. With a view to extending better healthcare facilities to the
people living in rural and inaccessible areas, Tata Steel will host
the Lifeline Express, the world’s first Hospital on-wheels, for the
second time in Ganjam district and for the seventh time in Odisha from
17th April to 11th May 2013.
Apr 27, 2013
The Lifeline Express will be stationed at Chhatrapur Railway Station in Ganjam district. The initiative is aimed at providing free surgical interventions in areas of post-polio deformities.
Tata Steel to Host Lifeline Express at Odisha's Gopalpur.
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Polio: Spätfolgen zu wenig bekannt.
Eltern
sollten dringend auf die Polio-Impfung bei ihren Kindern achten.
«Obwohl die Weltgesundheitsorganisation Europa im Jahr 2002 für
poliofrei erklärte, ist das Virus nur wenige Flugstunden von uns
entfernt», sagte Karola Rengis, Vorsitzende des Bundesverbandes Polio
Selbsthilfe, bei der Mitgliederversammlung des Vereins in München. Eine
Infektion kann gravierende Spätfolgen haben.
Mehr lesen www.pharmazeutische-zeitung.de
För patienter med kroniska sjukdomar som neurologiska sjukdomar, till exempel postpolio.
Vårdval införs för rehabilitering av neurologiska diagnoser med mera.
2013-04-09 14:03I dag den 9 april 2013 har
Femklövern i Region Skåne presenterat ett vårdval inom området
rehabilitering. Utredningsuppdraget för ett eventuellt införande av
vårdval kommer att ges på nästa hälso- och sjukvårdsnämnd den 26 april.
Läs mer www.mynewsdesk.com
Apr 7, 2013
DRAFT: Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018 – current working draft as of 29 March 2013.
As requested by the World Health Assembly in resolution WHA65.5, the
Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is developing a comprehensive
Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018.
The GPEI has
conducted broad consultations with countries, partners, stakeholders,
donors, vaccine manufacturers, regulatory agencies and national and
international advisory bodies. In November 2012, the Strategic Advisory
Group of Experts on immunization (SAGE) endorsed the major objectives of
the Plan and its associated milestones.
After input from the WHO
Executive Board (EB) on 21-29 January 2013, the Plan is in the final
stages of consolidation and consultation with Member States.
India makes inroads on polio as mosques spread the word.
Health workers in Aligarh are overcoming cultural mistrust about polio
immunisation by turning to local Muslim clerics for support.
"If you convert our efforts into pay, it's not really pay. It doesn't
even compare," says Khalida Sherwani, smiling. "I do it for the
children. We do it for the children."
She speaks with an intensity, a passion, evident in her role as a Unicef polio health worker. It's the second day in India's biannual immunisation campaign, a routine that began in 1995 when India had more than 100,000 cases of polio.
Continue reading www.guardian.co.uk
Albstadt "Impfmüdigkeit ist die größte Gefahr".
Von Karina Eyrich.
Albstadt-Lautlingen. Der Grund, warum sie es tut, liegt auf der Hand:
Die Lebenshilfe Zollernalb beteiligt sich an der Aktion des
Rotary-Clubs Ebingen gegen Kinderlähmung – und gegen Impfmüdigkeit.
Sie rollen und rollen und rollen: Die Aktion "Für eine Welt ohne
Kinderlähmung", 30 Fahrzeuge der Firma Ernst Lorch KG und nun auch 30
Transporter der Lebenshilfe Zollernalb. "Wir haben uns leicht getan,
diese Aktion zu unterstützen", sagt Holger Klein, Vorsitzender des
Stiftungsvorstands, über die Beschriftung mit Aktions-Plakaten. "Denn
Kinderlähmung war früher auch bei uns oft die Ursache von
Behinderungen."
Lesen sie weiter www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de
Mar 26, 2013
Krankengymnastik als Therapie.
25.03.2013 - GIESSEN-KLEINLINDEN
Neurologe beleuchtet im Bürgerhaus Kleinlinden Post-Polio-Syndrom – Ausschlussdiagnose.
(ies). Poliomyelitis, die Kinderlähmung: Noch vor Jahrzehnten
erkrankten vorwiegend Kinder an dieser Infektionskrankheit. Durch
konsequente Impfung gilt sie mittlerweile als ausgerottet. Jedoch kann
es durchaus bei im Kindesalter erkrankten Personen zu Spätfolgen kommen.
Sie leiden an dem sogenannten Post-Polio-Syndrom. Erschöpfungszustände,
neu auftretende Muskelschwächen und daraus resultierende Probleme sind
die Folge.
Bei der Mitgliederversammlung der Polio-Initiative-Europa referierte Dr.
Carsten Schröter, Chefarzt der Neurologischen Abteilung der Reha-Klinik
Hoher Meißner in Bad Sooden-Allendorf, im Kleinlindener Bürgerhaus über
das Thema „Post-Polio-Syndrom im Alter“.
Lesen sie weiter www.giessener-anzeiger.de
Feb 26, 2013
Policeman killed in fresh attack on polio team.
PESHAWAR: A policeman was shot dead Tuesday while protecting a
polio vaccination team, police said, bringing the death toll in such
attacks to 20 since December.
No one has claimed responsibility for the killings.
Tuesday’s killing happened at Ghalla Dher on the outskirts of the
northwestern town of Mardan, on the second day of a three-day local
anti-polio campaign.
“The female vaccinators went inside a house to administer the polio
drops. A police guard accompanying the team was waiting outside,” Mardan
district police chief Danishwar Khan told AFP.
“Two people came on a motorbike. They opened fire and shot the policeman dead,” he added.
Feb 19, 2013
Scientists have created new strains of polio.
New Polio Strains That Protect Vaccine Factory Workers. Scientists have created new strains of polio intended to protect workers in factories that make polio vaccine. The new strains have the same ability to invoke an immune reaction as the live viruses now used to make vaccine do, but there is virtually no risk anyone will get polio if one of the new strains somehow escapes.
Continue reading www.nytimes.com
Feb 7, 2013
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, apologises and vows to tackle NHS 'complacency'.
The prime minister has formally apologised for the care scandal at the Mid Staffordshire NHS
hospital trust and announced immediate moves to improve patient care,
increase accountability of hospitals and tackle a culture of
"complacency" in the NHS.
Among
the fast-tracked reforms were proposals that hospital boards could be
suspended for ongoing serious care failures; an element of
performance-related pay for nurses would be introduced; a new chief
inspector of hospitals modelled on the Ofsted inspection agency for
schools; and an inquiry into hospitals with the highest mortality rates
nationwide.
Read more www.guardian.co.uk
Egypt. The Health Ministry plans to start a special campaign of polio vaccination.
The Health Ministry's preventative medicine department issued a state of alert regarding the discovery of the polio virus in the sewers of Cairo's Hagana district.
The ministry is responding by vaccinating children in the district, and plans to launch a nationwide vaccination campaign next.
“We have vaccinated 150,000 children in the area,” said Abdel Ati
Alim, undersecretary for preventive medicine, adding that the ministry
would vaccinate 3 million children starting in March in Shubra, Khanka,
Kerdasa and the outskirts of Cairo and Giza. The campaign would then go
countrywide to vaccinate 12 million more children.
Read more www.egyptindependent.com
Feb 3, 2013
Afghanistan - Khost province records 3 positive polio cases.
KHOST
CITY (PAN): Southeastern Khost province recorded three new positive
polio cases. Health officials
confirmed presence of poliomyelitis in
three vaccinated children in a district
near the Pakistani border.
The
affected children belonged to a village in the Qalander district that
lies near the Pakistani border, Public Health Director Dr. Amir
Badsha Mangal said, adding it remained unclear how the virus got to
Khost which has been polio-free
since 2002.
He
said the affected children had been administered polio
drops during a campaign aimed at
left-over and migrated children.
World Health Organization (WHO) official
in Khost, Dr. Daud Shah believed the virus made its journey through
the long border between Khost and northern Waziristan region of
Pakistan.
Recently, 23 positive cases were registered in northern Waziristan, he said.
www.thefrontierpost.com
Year’s first polio case detected in Pakistan.
KARACHI, Feb 1: This year’s first case of polio in the
country was detected in a two-year-old boy in Karachi on Friday. This
was the first polio case in the city after one and a half years.
Musharraf, son of Usman, is a resident of Cattle Colony in Bin Qasim Town. The boy has never been vaccinated against polio.
“This family had old misconceptions about polio vaccination and had
repeatedly been recorded as a ‘refusal’ in anti-polio campaigns, the
regular vaccination drives as well as special anti-polio campaigns,”
expanded program for immunisation (EPI) of Sindh director Dr Mazhar
Khamesani said.
“They are willing for vaccination now, but there is no use of it when the boy has been crippled for life,” he said.
According to Dr Khamesani, the family sought medical help when the boy fell ill with fever and weakness.
“His samples were sent to the National Institute of Health on Jan 14 and the results have been received today,” he added.
Read more www.dawn.com
Jan 31, 2013
Pakistan - Two polio vaccination workers have been killed in a landmine blast in the Kurram tribal region of north-west.
Two polio vaccination
workers have been killed in a landmine blast in the Kurram tribal region
of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
The men were visiting a village in the Malikhel area when the mine went off. No group has claimed the attack.
Correspondents say Sunni militants may have planted the mine -
the upper Kurram area is dominated by Shias who do not oppose
anti-polio efforts.
Read more www.bbc.co.uk
Jan 29, 2013
Gunmen kill police officer protecting polio workers in Pakistan.
Gunmen on motorbikes have shot and killed a
police officer escorting polio workers during a UN-backed vaccination
campaign in north-west Pakistan, police said.
The attack took place as dozens of health workers – including several women – were going door-to-door to vaccinate children in Gullu Dheri village of the Swabi district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Izhar Shah, a senior police.
The attack took place as dozens of health workers – including several women – were going door-to-door to vaccinate children in Gullu Dheri village of the Swabi district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Izhar Shah, a senior police.
Read more www.guardian.co.uk
Jan 27, 2013
Scientists zoom in on a killer virus. SCIENTISTS have developed the world's first moving 3D simulation of the polio virus interacting with drugs.
The modelling represents a major breakthrough in the
battle to eradicate the disease, and could one day be used to find a
cure for HIV and other life-threatening viruses.
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
deputy director and lead researcher Jason Roberts said the simulation
was developed using the most powerful supercomputer in the southern
hemisphere, Blue Gene Q.
The technology, developed by the University of
Illinois for life sciences research, enables a model of the virus to
be built in minutes by mapping the atoms within it.
‘‘Without it, this research would have taken
months, if not years,’’ Dr Roberts said. ‘‘ When you’ve got
in excess of two million or three million atoms floating around in a
virtual system, it takes an incredible amount of computing power to
model that.
‘‘Up until this machine, this was pie-in-the-sky
stuff. Now we can actually do it,’’ he said.
Dr Roberts said the modelling enabled researchers to
see how a virus would react in different situations. ‘‘We’re
adding a drug in there, and that drug will float around in solution,
bind and do all the things it needs to do,’’ he said.
The campaign to eradicate polio has made significant
advances recently, with only 212 cases reported worldwide last year,
compared with 620 in 2011.
The disease is now found in only three countries —
Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan — where health authorities have
faced significant challenges in trying to immunise the population.
Reports late last month of a vaccine-resistant polio
virus emerging in at least 10 people in Pakistan prompted the World
Health Organisation to start using a different vaccine from the one
they have used for the past 50 years.
The supercomputer modelling would enable scientists
to deal with growing vaccine-resistant strains of the disease, Dr
Roberts said. ‘‘The simulation can be used to determine how the
virus mutates, changes with temperature, interacts with water and,
most importantly. how it interacts with drugs.’’
Dr Roberts said the research potentially had ‘‘huge
ramifications’’ for public health. ‘‘There’s nothing
stopping us in 10 years’ time moving this over to other viruses
such as HIV.’’
He said the researchers had chosen to work on polio,
rather than other viruses, because they had nearly 100 years of
research on which to base their modelling.
‘‘It’s one of the most studied viruses of all
time, so it’s a fantastic model,’’ he said.
Accuracy is one of the researchers’ highest
priorities as they work at such a minute level. They will need to
take time to perfect it before they can think about adapting the
simulation to other viruses.
‘‘The way I often like to imagine it is to tell
people it’s like walking into the MCG and saying you need to check
one chair to find out if it’s got four legs,’’ Dr Roberts said.
‘‘There are a lot of chair legs in the MCG.’’
An emergency polio vaccination programme is to be carried out in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after samples of the virus were found in sewage.
An emergency polio vaccination programme is to be carried out in the
Egyptian capital, Cairo, after samples of the virus were found in
sewage.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the strain of virus matches one found in southern Pakistan.
No-one in Cairo has shown any symptoms of the disease and there have been no cases of polio in Egypt since 2004.
Polio virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered in two sewage samples from Cairo.
Pakistani health officials Monday called for
infants leaving the country to be issued polio vaccinations at airports
after virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered
in Egypt.
Two sewage samples from Cairo were analysed and found to resemble a recently discovered strain in the Pakistani city of Sukkur, a joint statement by health officials, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF said.
"To reduce the possibility of spread of the
polio virus beyond Pakistan's borders, the government's Monitoring and
Coordination Cell is advising to set up permanent vaccination counters
at the international departure lounges of all airports," it said.
The statement recommended that "all children under five years leaving the country are vaccinated against the polio virus."
Read more www.google.com
Jan 18, 2013
Vaccine Switch Urged for Eradication of Remaining Pockets of Polio. An inactivated virus vaccine, delivered by injection rather than orally, could be key to eradicating polio globally.
Vaccine switch urged for polio endgame. Inactivated virus vaccine could deliver the final blow.
By sunrise on a warm December morning, Janila Shulu’s team are out in
the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighbourhood in a
predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria. Three
female health workers, accompanied by a community leader, dart from
house to house, squeezing a few drops of polio vaccine into the mouths
of all the young children they can find, even those who pass by on the
street. By 1 p.m., after giving hundreds of doses, they stop for the
day — the first of a national five-day effort.
Such campaigns are the backbone of the global push to eradicate polio,
but this month the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed a shift in vaccination strategy from oral vaccines to injected ones that may have to be administered in clinics. The
change is needed to mop up the last remaining pockets of polio, but
experts say that it poses challenges in places such as Kaduna city,
which have poor access to health care.
Continue reading www.nature.com
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