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Introduction of IPV (inactivated polio virus) vaccine

Chandigarh, 24th April 2016:  Department of Health and Family Welfare is going to introduce IPV (inactivated polio virus) vaccine in immunization schedule in U.T. Chandigarh from 25th April 2016.
As one of its four major objectives, the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018 calls on countries to introduce at least 1 dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) into routine immunization schedules, strengthen routine immunization and withdraw oral polio vaccine (OPV) in a phased manner.
    According to Dr Vanita Gupta, Director Health Services,Chandigarh has achievedgood Immunization coverage through Universal Immunization Programme*. Immunization is the most cost effective public health intervention that has delivered excellent results in vaccine preventable childhood diseases.IPV is one of the three vaccines that were approved by the government for inclusion in the UIP*.According to District Immunization officer Dr. Anu Chopra Dosajh ,one injection of IPV will be given to children who are 14 weeks of age .This vaccine will be given to these children along with injection pentavalent vaccine and oral polio drops.From now onwards the trivalent polio vaccine that was currently administered is being replaced by the bivalent variety to reduce incidence of vaccine-derived polio virus.
Oral polio vaccine is made of live attenuated polio virus of all three strains of polio – P1, P2 and P3. IPV provides serum immunity to all three types of poliovirus, resulting in protection against paralytic poliomyelitis. Two drops of the oral vaccine, which contains a weakened polio virus, is the preferred tool in eradication efforts because it is cheap and gives resistance in the digestive tract to lower the transmission of  virus. On the other hand the injectable  polio vaccine works largely in the bloodstream.Using both types of polio vaccines would speed up the efforts to free the world of this disease


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