Month: March 2023

Mission immunisation and polio eradication

Home Index Story of polio is indeed strange. We only find scanty mentions of this limb and muscle paralysing illness in ancient and medieval literature. First description of the disease was by Dr Micheal Underwood, an English physician in 1789. He described it as fever, followed by limb-paralysis, mostly affecting infants. Fifty years later, in 1840… Continue reading Mission immunisation and polio eradication

Two tools for child survival: ORS & Growth charts

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

Breast feeding: A preferred infant nutrition in postage stamps

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