Dimapur, February 25 (MExN): Nagaland will offer pulse polio vaccination for an estimated 1,51,458 children between the ages of 0-5 during an Intensive Pulse Polio immunization drive on Sunday, February 27.
“The Department of Health & Family Welfare is all geared up to administer Polio drops to all eligible children from 0-5 years throughout the state in 2,206 Polio Booths to be manned by 9,096 health personnel and 441 supervisors along with vaccines and other logistics,” State Immunization Officer Dr Ritu Thurr informed in a press release on Friday.
Special focus will be given to migrant population with an aim to prevent importation of Polio cases, he added.
As per the release, India has remained free of wild polio cases since January 2011 and India’s unprecedented progress against polio has led to certification of south east region including India by WHO in March 2014. India remains at high risk of importation till the whole world is free of wild polio virus. As per the recommendations of the India Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on Polio NIDs are to be conducted covering all the children in the age group 0-5 years of age using bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV), the release stated.
Meanwhile, the health department, while thanking everyone for their cooperation in the past, appealed to all sections of the society, government and non-governmental agencies including the security forces and police, organisations, churches, community leaders as well as parents of children below the age of 5, to come forward and ensure that all eligible children receive the ‘Two Drops of Life’ (Polio Drops) on Sunday.
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