PULSE POLIO IMMUNIZATION: Over 700,000 children to be covered in HP
Author(s): Arvind SharmaDharamsala, January 4, 2013: Over 700,000 childrenin the age group of 0-5 years will be administered polio drops in a two-round campaign beginning this month in Himachal Pradesh, an official said on Friday at Dharamsala...
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Jan 4, 2013 12:30
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Dharamsala, January 4, 2013: Over 700,000 childrenin the age group of 0-5 years will be administered polio drops in a two-round campaign beginning this month in Himachal Pradesh, an official said on Friday at Dharamsala .
He added residents of even snow-bound areas would be covered. It would be mainly booth based activities on first day and House-to House activity on the subsequent days till all the left out children were administered polio drops.
Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Ali R. Rizvi said in a statementthat about 5,853 booths had been planned throughout the state each catering a population of 125 children, for the pulse polio immunization campaign to be carried out Jan 20 and Feb 24.
Special booths would be set up in forest and remote areas too for the children of Gaddi and Gujjar tribes, Rizvi added.
