Polio awareness rally taken out

THE DISTRICT health administration launched various awareness campaigns on Friday in view of the next phase of the Pulse Polio drive on Sunday. Chief medical officer Dr AP Singh flagged off a Pulse Polio awareness rally from Government Queen?s College in Lahurabeer area on Friday morning.

THE DISTRICT health administration launched various awareness campaigns on Friday in view of the next phase of the Pulse Polio drive on Sunday.

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Chief medical officer Dr AP Singh flagged off a Pulse Polio awareness rally from Government Queen’s College in Lahurabeer area on Friday morning.

Students carried banners and placards to spread awareness about eradication of polio. The rally passed through various localities and culminated in a meeting at Queen’s College where the health officials highlighted the importance of polio immunisation.

Surveillance medical officer (polio) of the World Health Organisation Dr AK Pandey, district inspector of schools Onkar Shukla, district health information officer Dr SC Joshi, Government Queen’s College principal Dr Ram Awadh Singh and other eminent personalities asked students to ensure that not a single child below the age of five years was left out in the drive.

Dr Joshi said divisional commissioner CN Dubey would inaugurate the next round of the polio immunisation campaign at Shiv Prasad Gupta Divisional Hospital in Kabir Chaura area on Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, revenue district co-ordinator of the Pulse Polio Committee of Rotary International Dr MK Gupta said there were only 63 cases of polio across the country out of which 28 cases were reported in UP alone. Dr Gupta called upon a cross-section of society to come forward and join their hands in the national campaign.