Month: March 2023

Home Index Today polio stands eliminated from all but two countries in the world. India was declared to have eliminated polio in the year 2014. Ten years later about 65 odd cases are still reported annually from Pakistan and Afghanistan. 24th October is world polio day, and we still await its global eradication. Origins of poliomyelitis… Continue reading Mission immunisation and polio eradication

Home Index Two ubiquitous child-survival tools, oral rehydration solutions (ORS) and growth charts, are less than 50 years old. Both of these tools are simple, intuitive, and logical. In the 1980s, many developing countries celebrated these tools through postage stamps. Let’s take a look at some of them in this blog. Eureka moments are often gradual… Continue reading Two tools for child survival: ORS & Growth charts

Home Index Have you ever wondered about old baby-food advertisements. In these advertisements, we could see healthy-chubby infants and happy composed mothers. Once frequent on television and in print media, these have faded away. Often these advertisements projected condensed milk as a preferred option. In India we had sought to curtail these in 1992. Eventually they… Continue reading Breast feeding: A preferred infant nutrition in postage stamps

Home Index A child is born Childbirth is a beginning, of an independent human life. This event is universal to all creatures. It has its beginnings in conception, a union of two cells in human body, that have a capacity to create all the other organ systems and eventually an entire human body. After nine… Continue reading Celebrating motherhood in postal stamps

Index Home Whenever a commodity is in popular use, governments leverage it to raise money for a variety of purposes. Today, when we buy petrol, diesel, cigarettes, alcohol, gold etc, we also pay a surcharge or a cess. This cess may be for agriculture, education, construction of roads, infrastructure or environment. Back in early 1900s, postage… Continue reading Health stamp series from New Zealand