About 24 lakh children below five years of age were administered polio drops in all districts of Haryana on Monday, the first day of 3-day second National Immunisation round of Pulse Polio 2015. A spokesman of Haryana Health Department said 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 Monday 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. MlA Panipat Urban, Rohita Rewari inaugurated the polio campaign in Bhiwani and Panipat. MlA Yamunanagar Ghan Shyam Dass Arora and MlA Punhana, Mewat Rahisa Khan also inaugurated the pulse polio campaign in their respective districts.
In order to smoothly carry out this campaign, these booths were manned by about 66,000 health officials, volunteers, Anganwari Workers and Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). About 3,300 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.