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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, MAY 22. The Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, administered pulse polio drops to several children at her official residence here today to formally launch the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme. Polio drops would be administered to all children up to the age of five years in the Capital on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Ms Dikshit expressed satisfaction with the programme in Delhi and said only one polio case has been reported in East Delhi during last year. She said it was the effort of the staff and active support and cooperation of the public, non-governmental organisations and voluntary organisation which was showing satisfactory results. Asserting that Delhi and the rest of the country would be made polio-free, the Chief Minister called upon all residents to get their children the required pulse polio drops by taking them to the nearest Polio Kendra and motivating their neighbours too so that not a single child under five years of age remained deprived of these drops. The Delhi Health and Family Welfare Minister, Yoganand Shastri, informed that under the programme 7,500 polio kendras have been set up and 350 mobile teams prepared to cover slums, jhuggi clusters, dwelling units and construction sites. Besides, 65 teams will be deployed at the transit points. In all, about 25,000 personnel will be deployed for the purpose. Stating that the programme is not only aimed at further strengthening the immunity of children against Polio but also to eradicate the virus from the atmosphere so that the future generation along with the present one could be saved from this crippling disease, Mr Shastri said polio does not differentiate between the poor and the rich and therefore all children below five years need to be immunised against it.
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