Pulse Polio to cover 4,63,234 children in EG

Samarlakota: The East Godavari medical and health authorities have evolved plan to cover 4,63,234 children below five years of age under Pulse Polio which was commenced on Sunday.

Participating in the programme at community health centre in Samarlakota on Sunday morning, Collector Karthikeya Mishra said that this programme will continue for three days till Tuesday and 90 per cent of the children would be covered on first day itself.

He said ANMs, health workers and anganwadi workers would move around to cover all the targeted children during next two days.

As part of this programme, 3866 polio centres were set up apart from 140 mobile parties under the supervision of 387 staff members.

Six lakh doses of vaccine were being used for this purpose. In this connection, Collector appealed to the parents of children in the district to administer the vaccine without fail. Special focus has been laid on agency areas for cent percent coverage, he added.

Dr T Ramesh Kishore, DMHO and others attended.