The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Second round of polio immunisation

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Second round of polio immunisation

Staff Reporter

Chennai: The Chennai Corporation has set up 1,126 centres for administration of polio drops for all children below five years in the second phase of its pulse polio immunisation campaign on Sunday. The campaign expects to reach out to five lakh children. A Corporation release here said that polio drops would be administered free of cost in government health centres, noon-meal centres, private hospitals, schools, railway stations and bus stands. Mobile centres will function on the Marina beach. Children can be brought for immunisation from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. A 24-hour mobile centre will be set up at the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus in Koyambedu.

Polio drops need to be administered to children who have already received routine immunisation and pulse polio immunisation in the first round. The drops are only supplementary to regular immunisation. Newborns and even children who are ill can be given the drops, the release said.

Volunteers from schools and NGOs will also be involved.

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