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Sheila launches another Pulse Polio round

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday launched another round of Pulse Polio campaign in the city by administering anti-polio drops to a number of children at a function organised at her residence.

Speaking on this occasion, Ms. Dikshit said Delhi is all geared up to make a success of Pulse Polio immunisation programme on Sunday. The programme is aimed at ensuring that no virus of polio is left or allowed to enter the city.

“We are working at building a strong nation and for that we must have strong children, which would only be possible with the success of the polio programme. Our State has shown better results in this field. Being pioneers in the pulse polio programme, Delhi is regarded as a role model and it would continue to strive hard to completely eliminate polio,” she said.

Delhi had initiated Pulse Polio immunisation programme in 1994 and launched house to house “search and immunisation’ in 1999. Ms. Dikshit said Delhi had started the immunisation programme and Delhi Government had earned international acclaim because of its success. Informing about the arrangements, Delhi Health Minister Yoganand Shastri said 7,500 polio booths will be set-up on Sunday to administer polio vaccine to children up to five years of age.

“Around 30,000 workers and employees of the Health Department would be deployed to ensure maximum reach from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stalls will be stationed at railway stations, inter-state bus terminals and public places including Appu Ghar, major temples, Metro stations, Millennium Park, Delhi Zoo and outlets of McDonalds. Apart from this, a door-to-door weeklong survey would also be conducted under search and immunisation pulse polio campaign. Around 17,000 workers in 8,600 teams would visit different colonies, including slum and JJ clusters, to search for left over cases and administer polio drops to those children,” Dr. Shastri added.

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