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Harsh Vardhan offers to help Pakistan fight polio
Updated On: 25 October, 2014 07:21 AM IST | | IANS
<p>Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Friday offered Pakistan full cooperation in eradicating polio from that country. Pakistan at present accounts for 85 percent of the world's polio cases</p>
New Delhi: Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Friday offered Pakistan full cooperation in eradicating polio from that country. Pakistan at present accounts for 85 percent of the world's polio cases. On the occasion of World Polio Day, Harsh Vardhan welcomed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's recent adoption of a "National Emergency Action Plan-2014" on the disease.
Harsh Vardhan, in a statement, said: "I have been through the plan and find that the script is perfect. Pakistan has resolved to set up monitoring cells at the grassroots level. They are also talking of involving social groups, a strategy which worked wonderfully in India."
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