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7,500 booths to be set up all over the Capital 30,000 workers will help administer vaccine NEW DELHI: Delhi Health Minister Yoganand Shastri on Saturday urged all parents to avail of the special immunisation programme on Sunday to protect their children against the debilitating polio virus. The Minister said anti-polio drops would be administered to over 25 lakh children at over 7,500 booths to be set up all over the Capital. Dr. Shastri, who administered polio drops to a number of children while launching another phase of the Special Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme at the residence of the Delhi Chief Minister, said children up to five years of age would be administered drops by health workers and other agencies, including NGOs. The Minister said Delhi would continue to strive hard to completely eliminate polio, which seems imminent in coming months. He also recalled that Delhi was the first State to initiate the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme. And, he said, it would like to lead in elimination of this disease which not only hampers physical and mental growth of children but also renders them handicapped for the rest of their lives. To administer the polio vaccine to the children on Sunday, nearly 30,000 workers and employees of the Health Department would be deployed, he added. Stalls would also be set up at railway Stations, inter-State bus terminals, public places, major temples, Delhi Metro railway stations, Millennium Park and Delhi Zoo to reach out to the targeted group. Apart from this, a door-to-door week-long survey would also be conducted under the search and immunisation Pulse Polio campaign. As part of the campaign, nearly 17,000 workers in 8,600 teams would visit different colonies including slum clusters to search for any left-over cases and administer polio drops to such children.
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