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40 pc of targeted kids given polio drops
ABOUT 40 PER CENT of the targeted 10.88 lakh children were administered polio drops at various booths on the first day of the pulse polio drive here on Sunday. As many as 3376 booths were set up in the district to immunise children.
ABOUT 40 PER CENT of the targeted 10.88 lakh children were administered polio drops at various booths on the first day of the pulse polio drive here on Sunday. As many as 3376 booths were set up in the district to immunise children.
Director of Family Welfare Department Dr AK Tyagi inaugurated the polio drive at the Dufferin Hospital. He also inspected the booths in Kareli, Phaphamau and areas adjacent to the hospital.
Chief medical officer Dr Shantimal Singhavi also inspected the booths in Andawan, Saidabad and Jhusi. The additional director (health) also checked the booths in Handia.
Dr Singhavi said that the house-to-house activity would be conducted from September 11 to 15 to cover the remaining children.
Dr Singhavi said some people in rural areas were found reluctant to go to the booths. Various social and voluntary organisations also set up polio booths in the city.
A Varanasi report adds: AROUND 45 per cent kids below the age of five years were administered polio vaccine on the first day of the current round of Pulse Polio immunization campaign here on Sunday.
Divisional commissioner, VV Singh Vishven, administered polio drops to an infant and kicked off the campaign at the district women’s hospital in Kabir Chaura area.
Mufti-e-Shehar, Maulana, Abdul Batin Nomani, and chief medical officer, Dr AP Singh, inaugurated the immunization programme at Jamia Hospital in Golgadda area.
Alarmed with the detection of a fresh polio case in a Muslim family in Rewari Talab area in the first week of September this year, the district administration had roped in prominent figures of the minority community to generate awareness towards polio immunization programme in their community.
A nine-month old girl, Mehnaj Aafreen, was detected positive case of polio. The district health administration has also decided to include the parents of Mehnaj Aafreen in the five-day door-to-door polio immunization campaign beginning Monday, to reduce resistance of immunization in Muslim families.
CMO Dr AP Singh said that prominent members of the minority community were roped in to ensure that not a single kid below the age of five years was left un-immunized. He said special attention was paid in minority dominated areas such as Rewari Talab, Bazardeeha, Lallapura, Jaitpura, Sarraiya, Jalalpura, Kamalgarh and Madanpura for polio immunization.
The CMO said that the current year was very sensitive for the possible outbreak of polio in Uttar Pradesh. Last year only 29 cases of polio was detected in UP whereas this year more than 225 cases of polio have been reported in the State till now.
WHO Surveillance Medical Officer (Polio), Dr AK Pandey, said that 1813 polio booths were set up across Varanasi district today. Besides, 56 booths were set up at prominent crossings, railway stations and bus stands etc. to administer the polio drop.
