Polio Case in India
Seven bordering civil surgeons alerted
Civil surgeons of seven bordering districts have been directed to strengthen surveillance in the borders, as a polio patient was found at Haora in West Bengal Saturday.
The districts are Khulna, Satkhira, Jessore, Kushtia, Meherpur, Chapainawabganj, and Rajshahi.
The order was given verbally on Sunday soon after the World Health Organisation informed that a polio patient was found in a bordering district of India, said Shamsul Ashraf Khan, deputy director of expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) and surveillance.
The written order would be issued today, he said, adding that a significant number of people are coming from and going to India crossing the borders. The surveillance is strengthened so that not a single polio patient can enter Bangladesh.
India is still vulnerable to polio with some 865 polio patients being identified there. But no polio patient has been found in Bangladesh since last three years.
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