Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, Feb 24, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, Feb 24, 2003 |
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Health Gates gesture to Rotary club to curb polio Our Bureau
KOLKATA, Feb. 23 THE Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged a matching donation of $40 million to Rotary Club in India. The money will form part of the corpus of the $400-million project that seeks to eradicate polio in India by 2005. Talking to newspersons here , Mr K.K. Biswas, President of Rotary Club of Calcutta Mid West, said Rotary Club members were endeavouring to raise sponsorships and donations to the tune of $40 million. The balance sum required for the project, $320 million, will be contributed by the World Bank. Mr Biswas said that, since Rotary began its PolioPlus programme, the number of polio endemic countries in the world had declined from 125 in 1985 to 10 by the end of 2001. The number of polio cases has declined by more than 99 per cent since 1985 and 90 per cent since the acceleration of the global polio eradication initiative in 1999. According to him, the instances of polio are now confined to India and sub-Saharan Africa. India accounts for as much as 75 per cent of the polio cases globally. He appealed to all to contribute to the project and help in eradicating polio in India.
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