Andhra Pradesh - Guntur   

20 per cent urban children not vaccinated

Staff Reporter

HEALTH CAMPAIGN: A team of ANMs and teachers visiting door-to-door in Bapatla on Tuesday to immunise children left out on Pulse Polio day.

GUNTUR: Contrary to popular notion that people residing in urban pockets adhere to vaccination schedules, the door-to-door survey by the District Medical and Health Office teams to cover the left out children during Pulse Polio revealed that about 20 per cent of urban children were not vaccinated.

A team of teachers of Jamedarpeta Government School in Bapatla K. Rama Rao and Md. Kahsim visited every house in Shanti Nagar and some extension colonies of the town to ascertain the number of children left out during the Pulse Polio Day on April 9. Out of the 194 houses they visited children in 30 households were not taken to the immunization post.

By Tuesday, reports said the department covered 98 per cent of the children after door-to-door survey.

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