About 22 lakh children below five years of age were administered polio drops during booth activity on the first day of the three-day campaign, being organised from January 19 to January 21 in Haryana.
The first round of the intensified Pulse Polio national immunisation drive has started in all districts of Haryana, said Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij. He said that the Pulse Polio campaign would cover about 40 lakh children in the state.
The Health Minister said that while 55 per cent of the total target was covered on the first day of the campaign on January 19, house-to-house activity would be carried out on January 20 and 21 to track down and administer polio drops to the children left out on the first day.
About 3,300 officers and officials, apart from Independent Monitors from the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP-WHO), supervised the activity, he added.
The Health Minister said that during the second round, special attention would be paid to high-risk areas, including slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating and migrating population and construction sites, so that no child is left uncovered in these areas.