The sub-national immunisation round of Pulse Polio 2013-14 was launched in 13 districts of Haryana on Sunday. And, about 14.30 lakh children below the age of five years were administered polio drops at special booths on the first day of the three-day campaign.
The districts covered under the campaign on Sunday included Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mewat, Palwal, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonipat and Yamuna Nagar. A spokesman of Health department said that about 55 per cent of the targeted children have been covered on the first day of the campaign. The campaign was launched by Health Minister Rao Narender Singh at village Bhora Kalan in district Gurgaon.
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 covered on Sunday.
In order to smoothly carry out this campaign, a total of 10,573 booths were setup in the State and these were manned by about 42,000 health officials, volunteers, Anganwari workers and accredited social health activists. About 2,100 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.