Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
India’s National Immunisation Days, dedicated to the fight against polio, began in 1995. Within two decades annual cases of the disease were down from over 3,000 to none. India was officially declared polio-free in 2014.
This film, made three years later, shows probably one of the last of these nationwide events.
The world is even closer to being polio free, with endemic polio remaining in just two countries—Pakistan and Afghanistan. But until the infection is eradicated from every population in the world, the threat of epidemics remains, thanks to global transport networks, and immunisation has to continue.
India’s National Immunisation Days, dedicated to the fight against polio, began in 1995. Within two decades annual cases of the disease were down from over 3,000 to none. India was officially declared polio-free in 2014.
This film, made three years later, shows probably one of the last of these nationwide events.
The world is even closer to being polio free, with endemic polio remaining in just two countries—Pakistan and Afghanistan. But until the infection is eradicated from every population in the world, the threat of epidemics remains, thanks to global transport networks, and immunisation has to continue.
