The elimination of polio from India in 2011 is one of the world’s greatest public health achievements. While there are no new polio cases in the country, thousands of the disease’s survivors still live with the impacts of the crippling disease. Dr. Mathew Varghese, an orthopedic surgeon at St. Stephens Hospital in Delhi, runs India’s only polio ward, where he provides reconstructive surgery for polio patients to give them greater mobility. He looks forward to the day when he has no more patients to serve.
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