3-day polio drive kicks off in district

Tribune News Service

Patiala, September 15

On the first day of three-day migratory pulse polio round, the Health Department administered polio drops to 13, 290 kids on Sunday. 

Civil Surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra kicked off the drive by administering polio drops to children at Dheha Basti near Sanouri Adda.

Dr Malhotra said the department has set a target of giving polio drops to 25,052 children up to the age of five years during the three-day campaign.  Around 184 teams and 12 mobile teams have been constituted to administer polio drops in the district. The programme will be supervised by 19 health officers. The teams would visit brick-kilns, colonies of labourers, factories and slums.

Dr Malhotra said the campaign would continue for another two days in urban and rural blocks of Patiala.  Dr Sunita Pal, Assistant Director, Health and Family Welfare, visited various areas to check the drive.

Assistant Civil Surgeon Dr Shelly Jaitley, District Immunisation Officer Dr Sukhminder Singh, SMO Dr Navzinder Sodhi ,Dr Kushaldeep Kaur, Dr Taranpreet Kaur, Media Officer Krishan Kumar were also present.