Current context: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the Pulse Polio Programme on 31st October 2019.
a. 2019
b. 2020
c. 2021
d. 2022
- The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1988.
- In India, the Delhi government had first launched the immunization programme on a pilot basis on 2nd October 1994 with the tagline ‘Do Boond Zindagi Ki’.
- Government of India later adopted and implemented the programme as Pulse Polio Campaigns in 1995.
- The World Health Organization gave India the polio-free status in 2014.
Question:
Q.1 The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced to celebrate 25 years of Pulse polio programme in the year______?a. 2019
b. 2020
c. 2021
d. 2022
