The World Health Organization has been praising and is proud of India’s success in the target of polio eradication, says a report. India has shown a great improvement by finding not even a single case of the crippling disease since the last one year.

It has been revealed that zero cases of polio have been found in the records after a case of 18-month-old girl in Howrah, near Kolkata, who was paralyzed due to the virus. This achievement of India is being lauded by the WHO and is being called as the greatest public health achievement of India.

India which was one of the four epicenters, including Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, of the world, would soon be out of the list of the countries never stopping the wild poliovirus transmission. It is also a push to bring the virus to a permanent end.

The Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, said to the context that India has shown creativity, determination as well as professionalism by bringing an end to the endemic. Also, it has encouraged Global Polio Eradication Initiative to focus on polio free drive and decline the rate of risk of the disease.

According to the findings of the report, several polio free areas such as Bangladesh, Angola, Tajikistan, Nepal and Russia have also been fighting from the disease as they imported the virus from Indian origin. The way forward to stopping polio by India would undoubtedly help other such areas also to prevent recurrence of the mutilate virus.

"India's achievement is proof positive that we can eradicate polio even in the most challenging environments - in fact, it is only by targeting these areas that we can defeat this evil disease”, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.