Karnataka - Bangalore

80 p.c. children given polio drops in State

Staff Reporter

70.88 p.c. coverage in BMP limits

BANGALORE: The second round of the Pulse Polio campaign was held all over the State on Sunday.

Nearly 80 per cent of the targeted 72 lakh children aged less than five years expected to be immunised, were covered in the campaign on the National Immunisation Day (Sunday).

However, the coverage was 70.88 per cent in areas in the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike limits.

Nearly 30,500 booths were be set up and 1,05,000 vaccinators and supervisors were involved for administering polio drops to the children.

The Global Polio Eradication initiative is a public-private partnership spearheaded by World Health Organisation, the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Union Government and Rotary International.

The State recorded the last polio case on February 4 and no case has been reported since then.

Booths were set up at hospitals, schools, bus stands and railway stations.

The next two days volunteers would go on a house-to-house campaign to immunise children aged less than five who were not taken to the booths on the first day.

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