40 lakh children to be given polio drops

Chandigarh, May 17 (UNI) About 40 lakh children, up to the age of five years, would be covered under the Sub-National Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) round in Haryana on May 20.

Haryana Health Minister Kartar Devi said that all arrangements had been made for the successful implementation of IPPI round.

As many as 15,630 booths would be set up at locations convenient to the people and these would be manned by 62,500 vaccinators drawn from Health and Education Departments, Integrated Child Development Services scheme, NGOs and representatives of Haryana Unit of Indian Medical Association, self help groups. A number of volunteers would also be engaged in this drive.

She said that about 3,100 supervisors would oversee the functioning of the vaccination teams and ensure that no child was left unimmunised. Nodal officers from the State Headquarters and independent monitors from Pt. B.D.S. Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak would also monitor the campaign to ensure quality of services and complete coverage.

Mrs Kartar Devi said that focus would be laid on covering children residing in slums, labour colonies inhabited by migratory population, brick-kilns, children of industrial labour, rice-shellers, stone-crushers, construction sites, nomadic population and children in transit at bus stands, railway stations and markets.

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