Dimapur, January 30 (MExN): Assam Rifles units of HQ IGAR (North) carried out the first round of Intensive Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) in all districts across Nagaland on January 29. A total of 1,958 children were given the polio drops during the immunization drive.
A press release from Assam Rifles informed that Assam Rifles medical teams comprising the Medical Officers and Nursing Staff reached out to the masses in far flung areas “keeping with the spirit of friends of the hill people to benefit the deprived sections of society under its Sector HQs at various locations, wherein people were educated about the importance of periodical administration of pulse polio drops to the children especially between 0-5 years to wipe out the anathema of polio from the State and the country.”
3 Assam Rifles, 9 Assam Rifles, 28 Assam Rifles and 7 Assam Rifles units conducted the medical camps at Kohima, Chieswema, Wokha and Kiphire respectively and administered pulse polio immunization to 399 children.
At Kashiram Basti, Medziphema and Jalukie, 32 Assam Rifles, 36 Assam Rifles and 41 Assam Rifles units respectively conducted medical camps and administered polio drops to 1108 children.
Meanwhile, 5 Assam Rifles, 35 Assam Rifles, 40 Assam Rifles and 44 Assam Rifles units conducted the medical camps at Zunheboto, Mon, Naginimora, Tuensang and Mokokchung respectively, where a total of 451 children were given the polio drops.
