The Medical Health Department will celebrated September 21 as Pulse Polio Sunday. In Dehradun district 898 teams were engaged in administering polio drops to the kids below five years of age. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun Dr SP Agarwal had constituted four nodal officers to monitor the pulse polio immunisation programe in the district. The District Immunization Officer (DIO) Dr Naresh Napachiyal was the nodal officer for the Raipur area while Dr OP Baukhandi was the nodal officer of Doiwala and Rishikesh, similarly Additional Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) Dr DK Chakrapani acted as nodal officer for Dehradun city area and ACMO and Dr Bhaghirathi Jangpangi was nodal officer for Vikasnagar and Mussoorie.
The DIO Dr Napachiyal informed The Pioneer that 1,221 polio booth which included 132 mobile booths were setup for the programe. He said that the exact number of children administered the vaccine would be available after compiling information from different teams. Dr Napachiyal informed that the pulse polio teams would engage in door to door immunisation drive from September 22 to September 27 in which all children below five years of age would be administered polio drops. WHO has certified India as free from polio this year. The last case of polio in the country was reported on January 13 2011 while the last case of Uttarakhand was reported on November 8, 2009. The Dehradun district reported its last case on September 25 2006 in Reetha Mandi area.