🌍🌍🌍16 MARCH 🌍🌍🌍

NATIONAL VACCINATION DAY 

OR

NATIONAL IMMUNISATION

THEME   ;   "VACCINES WORK FOR ALL".

  • This day which is also known as National immunisation day is celebrated on March 16 to mark India's victory against the disease, polio. 
  • The day is observed to celebrated the Indian governments pulse polio campaign which was an initiative to eradicate polio from the country. 
  • On the day the first dose of Oral polio vaccine was given in India in 1995.
  • In 2014 India became a polio free country. 
  • Polio  ; Viral Disease
  • Jonas Edward Salk  ; developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. 
  • First Oral polio vaccines ( OPV) developed by Dr. Albert Salin and first used in 1961.
  • Ministry of Health & Family Welfare ( MO HFW+ MOST+ MOED) + Science & Technology+ Earth Science
  • Harsh Vardhan
  • Constituency  ; Chadni Chowk, Delhi. 

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