Bahrain marks World Polio Day

Manama, Oct. 23 (BNA):The Kingdom of Bahrain has been declared free from poliomyelitis since 1993. As Bahrain joins the world in celebrating the World Polio Day, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said it continues to immunize children against diseas with the ratio of children being vaccinated exceeding 97% since 1997. Bahrain shifted from the trivalent OPV to the bivalent OPV system in April 2016 as per the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the ministry said in a statement. Bahrain has devised its plan to carry out simulation processes against any possible outbreak of the disease in coordination with the WHO and will update its readiness and response plan against the virus in November 2016.