The ‘Odisha Calling’, an orgainsation working for the eradication of polio, organised a walkathon titled ‘End Polio Now. It was held to and fro between Janta Maidan and Jaydev Vihar here on the World Polio Day on Tuesday.
Participants created awareness regarding how the Rotary and its partners’ Global Polio Eradication programme initiated 30 years ago has plummeted polio infection by more than 99.9 percent, from about 3,50,000 cases a year to just 37 cases in 2016.
Odisha Calling convenor Debabrata Nayak led the event in which with many volunteers and general people participated. Rakesh Singh and Ashok Mohanty addressed the gathering before the ‘Walkathon’. It gathered huge attention from passerby.