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Pulse polio gets under way

By Our Special Correspondent

VISAKHAPATNAM, JULY 4. The district Collector, Praveen Prakash, stressed the need to achieve 100 per cent success in immunisation of children in the age group of 0-5 years against polio.

He was inaugurating the pulse polio camp at Madhurawada here today. Following detection of a polio case in Srikakulam district, it was decided to conduct a special immunisation camp in 10 districts today, he said.

In all, 4,70,940 children are being immunised in the district. The district administration has arranged 4,000 two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles for a door-to-door campaign and to cover children left out of the camp in Visakhapatnam and Gajuwaka in the next four days.

Saying that the Government was spending Rs. 6 per dose on the vaccine, he appealed to the people to make the immunisation programme a success.

Children in the district were immunised in pulse polio programme on May 9 last. The programme would be conducted on August 22, October 10 and November 21 as mop up operation.

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