The second national immunisation round of pulse polio 2017 was held on Sunday in all the districts of Haryana in which booth activity was undertaken on the first day in order to wipe out polio from the state.
On the first day during the booth activity, approximately 22 lakh (about 55%) children under 5 years of age have been administered polio drops, said an official spokesman.
Around 40 lakh children are to be covered during this campaign in the State.
This campaign will continue for another two days by way of House-to-House activity to trace and administer polio drops to the left out children on booth day.
He said that in order to smoothly carry out this campaign, a total of 16261 booths were setup in the state and these were manned by approximately 67,000 health officials / volunteers/ Anganwari Workers/ ASHA etc. 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 IEC activities.
The spokesman said that the left out children during the booth activity on first day will be administered polio vaccine drops on April 3 and 4 through house-to-house teams.
During this round, special attention has been paid to high risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating/ migrating population & construction sites so that no child is left uncovered in these areas. About 1500 mobile teams will be working during the activity to cover all children in underserved and poorly approachable areas.
It is important to know that wherever, pockets of children remain un-immunised, the Poliovirus sustains survival & circulation. With every successive round of pulse polio immunisation, the areas of Poliovirus circulation get reduced, added the spokesman.