MONDAY, MAY 20, 2024
Team Herald
The Pulse Polio Vaccination campaign was launched across the state on Sunday, March 3 by the Directorate of Health Services. The campaign aims to provide pulse polio vaccination to all children under five. For this, 660 vaccination booths have been set up across the state and the Directorate of Health Services aims to vaccinate approximately 1 lakh or more children under five years of age in this campaign.
After the end of March 3 booth vaccination campaign, door to door campaign will be continued from March 4 to 6 to complete the drive. 660 booths have been set up in the state for the booth vaccination campaign and health department employees have been deployed at these booths. Out of this, 491 booths are fixed booths, 107 are mobile booths, while 62 booths are going to work as transit booths. The health department has appealed to the parents to take their children under five years of age to these booths in their respective areas.
Although India became polio-free in March 2014, polio cases still occur in India's neighboring countries, such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. According to the World Health Organization, if even one child remains infected with polio, within ten years there may be 2 lakh cases of polio worldwide. Therefore, as a precautionary measure, 3rd March is also observed as Polio Vaccination Day in India every year. The last case of polio in India was found in Kerala in 2000. But since 2011, not a single case of polio has been reported in India.
