Migratory Pulse Polio Campaign To Start From November 1 To 3

Jalandhar : A migratory Pulse Polio campaign will start from November 1 to 3 in which the teams of the health department will administer the polio drops to 40163 children between the age group of 0-5 years in this special campaign.A total of 420 teams have been formed including 355 house to house teams, 6 transit teams and 59 mobile teams for the successful coverage of 78067 houses.Civil Surgeon Dr Gurinder Kaur Chawala said that 97 supervisory teams have also been constituted for monitoring the drive.She said that the mobile teams will administer polio vaccine to children living in semi-urban areas, slums, small-big factory campuses, and transit teams will administer drops to the children at bus stands, railway stations.She said that polio teams would cover bus stands, railway stations, and markets besides brick kilns, slums, construction sites and other areas during the three-day drive.The Civil Surgeon said that the migratory population residing in slums and brick kilns will be specially covered and appealed to the residents to assist the health teams in carrying out this drive successfully.She added that the health department would make concerted efforts for making Pulse Polio Campaign a huge success in the district. Meanwhile, she flagged off a polio rickshaw rally to spread awareness about the pulse polio campaign on Friday.