About 24 lakh children below five years were administered polio drops in all districts of Haryana on Sunday, the first day of 3-day second National immunisation round of pulse polio 2015. A spokesman of Haryana Health Department said that about 59 per cent of the total targeted children were covered at specially set up 16,732 booths in districts.
Those who could not be covered on Sunday would be administered polio drops by special teams who would go from home to home for next two days. A total of about 40 lakh children are to be covered during this campaign in the state, he added.
In order to smoothly carry out this campaign, booths were manned by about 66,000 health officials, volunteers, Anganwari Workers and Accredited Social Health Activists(ASHAs). About 3300 officers, officials supervised the activity apart from Independent Monitors of NPSP-WHO.This activity was preceded by undertaking awareness campaign through print media, Radio, TV, drum beating and other such activities.
During this round, special attention has been paid to high risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating or migrating population and those living at construction sites so that no child is left uncovered in these areas. About 1500 mobile teams are also working during the campaign to cover all children in underserved and poorly approachable areas, added the spokesperson.