The Hindu : Over 28.5 lakh children given polio drops

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Feb 23, 2004

Kerala

Kerala

Over 28.5 lakh children given polio drops

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 22. The second dose of pulse polio vaccination was given to 28,57,602 children below the age of five years in the State today, according to a press release issued by the Health Department.

As many as 23,568 booths were set up across the State to administer the vaccine. The Health Department estimated that nearly 97 per cent of the children in the specified age group were covered by the campaign today. The exercise enlisted the services of 47,136 volunteers and 2,357 supervisors, the press release said.

The Health Department was assisted in the campaign by the departments of Local Administration, Social Welfare, Scheduled Tribes' Welfare and Education, Kerala State Electricity Board, Rotary International, several private hospitals and a large number of voluntary organisations.

The Health Department would deploy its teams for three days beginning tomorrow on door-to-door visits all over the State to ensure that the children left out of today's campaign too were given pulse polio vaccination. "Every child would be administered the vaccine," the press release said, quoting the Health Director, V.K. Rajan.

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