More than 15,000 children administered polio vaccine drops

Tribune news Service

Bathinda, May 30

To curb polio in slums, a three-day special polio drive has been launched by the district administration. More than 20, 130 children, living in slums, will be administered polio drops during the drive.

A similar drive was launched by the Health Department last month in the city, covering more than 20,557 children under its door-to-door polio drops campaign.

Earlier in January, around 2 lakh children administrated polio drops while setting up 697 booths during a polio drive. The drive was held under the guidance of Civil Surgeon Dr RS Randhawa.

Special teams have been constituted to administer polio drops to mobile population, especially in slum areas, at railway stations and other areas.

Dr Randhawa said, “Oral polio vaccine (polio drops) was administered under the immunisation programme for mobile population that usually remains out of the reach of the Health Department. For this, a number of teams had been constituted and those teams visited each house in slums, railway stations, brick kilns, factories and other remote areas to administer polio drops to children. On the first day, we had covered more than 8,587 children of slum area. More than 15,000 children have been covered in two days.”