By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net
Bhopal: On next Sunday February 10, as many as 98 lakh children up to five years of age will be administered Pulse Polio drops in Madhya Pradesh.
A target of administering polio drops to 98 lakh children has been set for the Pulse Polio campaign to he held on Sunday. For this one crore 42 vaccine dozes have been sent to districts. Adequate arrangements of cold chain have also been made to with a view to keeping the polio dozes intact. After administering polio doze at polio booths on Sunday, remaining children would be given the dozes at their houses on Monday and Tuesday, February 11 and 12, 2008. During the last one year no new polio case has been found in Madhya Pradesh.
The state government has completed all the arrangements to make the polio campaign successful. In all, 65,711 polio vaccination booths have been set up in districts. Besides, 2433 transit booths and 1822 mobile teams have also been deployed. For ensuring polio campaign’s success, 10,147 supervisors and one lakh 64,854 employees have been posted. For exchanging campaign-related information, a state-level control room has been at Bhopal’s IEC Bureau with telephone numbers 0755-6418927 and fax 27060183.
During the pulse polio campaign children up to the age of five years will be administered polio doze. Arrangements have also been made to administered polio dozes by mobile teams to children of families living in under-construction urban colonies, semi-urban areas, brick kilns, stone quarries, premises of small and big industrial units and remote forest areas. Transit booths would be constituted to administer polio dozes to children at bus stands, railway stations, crowded markets and “Mela” (fair) areas.
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