World Polio Day 2024 will be celebrated on October 24. This annual commemoration is focused on raising awareness about what polio is, how to safeguard young kids across the world against this and the importance of eradicating this disease from the world. India, which has been one of the few countries that struggled with the eradication of polio, has been marked polio-free for over a decade now. This serves as the perfect set-up for people to understand the need to end polio worldwide and how to inch closer towards this goal. As we prepare to celebrate World Polio Day 2024, here is everything you need to know about this day, how to celebrate World Polio Day and more. Polio Day 2024: Pulse Polio Vaccination Camps in 43,000 Places in Tamil Nadu.

When is World Polio Day 2024? Know Date and History

World Polio Day 2024 will be celebrated on October 22. The commemoration was initiated by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. This celebration aims to promote the use of the polio vaccine and how it has helped us truly build a better world where young people are safeguarded against the disease that can debilitate one’s life.

World Polio Day 2024 Theme

Every year, the celebration of World Polio Day revolves around one dedicated theme that helps people truly celebrate the day by having more streamlined conversations around the topic and raising more cohesive awareness on this subject. World Polio Day 2024 theme is Let’s End Polio and will be marked with great enthusiasm by volunteers and advocates who seek a polio-free world. Polio Day 2024: Health Workers Brave Heavy Snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir To Administer Door-to-Door Polio to Children (Watch Video).

Polio has impacted over 12 million people worldwide and has a way of debilitating your day-to-day life. More often than not, the illness impacts young children. And this is what makes putting an end to polio more important than ever. The fact that the vaccine that can eradicate polio exists, and there is still an accessibility issue to this vaccine, is what makes people more passionate about this celebration.

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