He has conquered more than a billion hearts. But when off the - TopicsExpress



          

He has conquered more than a billion hearts. But when off the sets, Shri Amitabh Bachchan saved millions of lives by associating himself with the national pulse polio campaign as UNICEF’s goodwill ambassador for polio. Meeting him yesterday at a programme to celebrate India’s achievement of zero polio cases in the past three years was a great experience. History will remember him as a true patriot. By 2003, the pulse polio campaign which I had conceptualised and rolled out in 1994, had struck a plateau and India was once again reporting a large number of fresh cases. Amitabh Bachchan should get the credit of motivating people to take their children for polio immunisation. Thousands of volunteers joined the mission inspired by his “Do boond zindagi ki” call. I salute this truly patriotic Indian. His humility and forthrightness struck me especially. He assured me of his readiness to lend his towering image to any social mobilisation programme designed by the Health Ministry. With him as our public face, I am sure it will be possible to achieve Health For All through a nationwide social movement. It’s clear that Big B also has a big heart.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:41:07 +0000

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