DW BUREAU / Chandigarh

The Sub National Immunization (SNID) round of Pulse Polio 2024-25 has started on Sunday in 6 districts of the Haryana, identified by Government of India viz: Faridabad, Gurugram, Jhajjar, Mewat, Sonipat and Kaithal in which booth activity was undertaken on the first day in order to maintain the polio free status of the State.

Sharing more details in this regard an official spokesperson said that all the district booths have been inaugurated by Public representatives, senior officers of district administration and health department. Approximately 15 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, said the spokesperson. The spokesperson said that in district Faridabad activity was inaugurated by MLA, Sh. Mool Chand Sharma, at SDH Ballabgarh and by MLA, Sh. Satish Phagna and Sh. Kavinder Chaudhary ; in district Gurgaon by Sh. Tejpal tawar ji at PHC Bhondsi and in district Jhajjar by Captain Birdaha, chairman of zila parishad.

The spokesperson said that approximately 60 percent (9 lakhs) children under 5 years of age have been administered polio drops. In order to smoothly carry out this campaign, around 6200 booths were set up in the state and these were manned by approximately 26,000 health officials/volunteers/Anganwari Workers ASHA etc. About 1000 officers/officials supervised the activity apart from State Nodal officers and Independent Monitors of NPSP-WHO. This activity was preceded by undertaking an awareness campaign through print media, miking, and other IEC activities.

The spokesperson said that left out children during the booth activity on 1st day (December 8, 2024) will be administered polio vaccine drops on December 9 and 10 2024 through visit of house-to-house teams in the above mentioned 6 districts, with special focus on high risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating/ migrating population and construction sites.

(editor@dailyworld.in)