(Left to Right): A Gaon Bura administers polio drops in Kiphire. A young mother looks as her child receives the ‘drop of life’ at the New Field Check Gate, Dimapur. SP Shamator Amit Kumar joins the drive as newly created Shamator district observed its first polio immunisation campaign. With the aim of administering pulse polio vaccination to an estimated 1, 51,458 children between 0-5 years of age, Nagaland launched an Intensive Pulse Polio Immunisation (IPPI) drive across the state on February 27. Sunday’s IPPI campaign will be followed by house-to-house visitation on February 28 and March 1.
