In a major health initiative for the children, as many as 2,90,646 children between 0 to 5 years will be administered polio drops under the polio eradication campaign to be launched in Udham Singh Nagar district from September 21.
The district administration Udham Singh Nagar has decided to deploy a team comprising 2,808 health personnel to administer the polio drops to the children under this programme.
To ensure proper execution of this polio eradication campaign, the administration would set up 1,279 polio booths, including 1,134 fixed ones, 95 transit ones and 50 mobile ones at different locations across the district, the officials concerned informed.
The polio eradication programme will be followed by a door-to-door polio eradication campaign from September 22 to 27, added the officials concerned of the Udham Singh Nagar district administration.
As many as 759 teams of health personnel have also been constituted to carry out door-to-door polio campaign.
Reviewing the preparatory measures taken to ensure successful completion of the polio eradication programme, Pankaj Kumar Pandey, District Magistrate Udham Singh Nagar, has asked the officials concerned to involve social organisations and local public representatives in the drive.
He also announced that all the Aaganbadi units across the district will remain open on Sunday, September 21 in view of the polio eradication programme. The Udham Singh Nagar district administration has also stressed the need to give wide publicity to this polio eradication programme so that all the children could be administered polio drops.