Click to play videoOrissa: As the Government claims that it is almost on the verge of eradicating polio from this country there also lay a flip side to this success story.
In what seems to be a gross negligence during mass immunisation of polio, more than 100 children in a single block in Ganjam district of Orissa have been affected by polio even after taking regular polio drops under the immunization programme.
The children are all aged between four and ten. Their parents claim they were on regular doses of polio drops in government health centres.
Neelima was infected with the disease when she was just two years old. "If we would had not given polio drops to our children then we would have been responsible for this. But even after giving regular drops if our child suffers we definitely hold government responsible for this negligence," says her mother, Golapi Behera.
Dr Rabi Kumar Satpathy a reputed paediatrician in the district, has been treating most of the victims of polio and he suspects improper handling of the polio vaccines
"The vaccines are supposed to be preserved in 0 degree celsius and properly handled otherwise it tends to become ineffective," says he.
Ironically Ganjam district's Chief Medical Officer, Umakant Tripathy, has been declaring the district polio free for the last two years - even though many patients have been in treatment for over three years now.
The Chief District Medical Officer seems to be blissfully unaware .
"There are no such reports of polio with me right now but I will definitely enquire into it," says Tripathy.
These innocent children continue to suffer because their parents are too poor to fight any legal battle to get compensation. Seeing their plight, It seems that the government simply does not care.
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