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15th August 2010
Polio Foundation & Anganwadi volunteers attended one day seminar about symptom of Cerebral Palsy

18th July 2010
Polio foundation & Ahmedabad Orthopedic Society jointly organized a symposium on “ Current concepts in club foot management- from curiosity to reality”

11th July 2010
A free medical camp on diabetic foot & retinopathy was held on 11th July 2010 in association with Divya Bhaskar- a leading Gujarati newspaper at Polio Foundation

4th July 2010
Polio foundation in association with Ahmedabad Physician’s Association organized a medical seminar on Diabetic foot

3rd July 2010
Shri Jaydevbhai and Kalpanaben Desai, USA and Lions’ club of Ahmedabad Central jointly organized a camp for handicapped people at Polio foundation, Jivraj Park

19th & 20th June 2010
Rotary Club of Kolkata & Polio Foundation jointly organized diagnostic & operative camp at Kolkata And performed 35 corrective surgeries

It was agony to see handicapped children dragging themselves on their buttocks or walking like quadruped animals, rather doggishly without any hope for better life. Few friends thought, "Can we make these children walk on their two legs ?" The answer was "YES' and this led to the birth of Polio Foundation in Ahmedabad in 1987. The idea took a concrete shape when Specialist doctors, Donors and Social Workers came together and Polio Foundation started pulsating in1987. The mission to give 'A Ray of Hope' by giving meaning to their lives has begun.

A CONSCIOUS SOCIAL DECISION ON PART OF MEDICAL FRATERNITY,
LEADING TO ABSOLUTELY FREE SERVICES FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE.