The sub-national immunisation round of Pulse Polio 2013-14 was launched in 13 districts of Haryana and about 14.82 lakh children below the age of five years were administered polio drops at special booths on the first day of the 3-day campaign.
These 13 districts included Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mewat, Palwal, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonipat and Yamunanagar.
A spokesman of Health Department said that about 57 percent of the targeted children have been covered on the first day of the campaign. The campaign will continue for another two days as teams would go from house to house to administer polio drops to those children who were not uncovered today.
In order to smoothly carry out this campaign, a total of 10573 booths were set up in the state and these were manned by about 42,000 health officials, volunteers, Anganwari Workers and Accredited Social Health Activists.
About 2100 officials supervised the activity apart from independent monitors of PGIMS, Rohtak and WHO.
About 26 lakh children are to be covered during this campaign in the state. During this round, special attention has been paid to high risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating or migrating population and construction sites so that no child is left uncovered in these areas.
About 1000 mobile teams are also working to cover all children in underserved and poorly approachable areas, informed the spokesman.