Chandigarh: About 14.50 lakh (about 55 per cent) children under five years of age were administered polio drops in Haryana on the first day of Sub-National Immunisation round of Pulse Polio 2014-15 held on Sunday in 13 districts.
The campaign will continue for another two days by house-to-house activity to trace and administer polio drops to the left out children. About 26 lakh children are to be covered during this campaign in the state.
In order to smoothly carry out this campaign, a total of 10,636 booths were set up in the state and were manned by about 42,000 health officials, volunteers, Anganwari workers, among others.
The 13 districts where polio drops were given are Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mewat, Palwal, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonepat and Yamuna nagar, an official release said here.
The left out children during the booth activity on first day will be administered polio vaccine drops on April 27 and 28 through house-to-house teams.
During this round, special attention would be paid to high risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating and migrating population and construction sites so that no child is left uncovered in these areas.
About 1,000 mobile teams are also working during the activity to cover all children in undeserved and poorly approachable areas, it said.
