CHANDIGARH, JUNE 16
The Sub National Immunization round of Pulse Polio 2019-20 has been held today in 13 districts of Haryana namely Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mewat, Palwal, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonipat and Yamunanagar, in which booth activity was undertaken on the first day to maintain the polio free status of the State. On the first day during the booth activity, approximately 14 lakh, which is about 52 per cent children under 5 years of age, have been administered polio drops.
While stating this here today, an official spokesman said that this campaign will continue for another two days by way of House-to-House activity to trace and administer polio drops to the left out children on booth day. In order to smoothly carry out this campaign, around 13,000 booths were setup in the state and these were manned by approximately 50,000 health officials, volunteers, Anganwari and ASHA Workers. About 2,100 officers and officials supervised the activity apart from Independent Monitors of NPSP-WHO. This activity was preceded by undertaking awareness campaign through print media, Radio, TV, miking, drum beating and other IEC activities. Approximately 26 lakh children are to be covered during this campaign in the state, he added.
He said that the left out children during the booth activity on first day, will be administered polio vaccine drops on June 17 and 18 through house-to-house teams.
During this first round, special attention has been paid to high risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating and migrating population and construction sites so that no child is left uncovered in these areas. Approximate 1,240 mobile teams are also working during the activity to cover all children in under served and poorly approachable areas.
The spokesman said that it is important to know that wherever, pockets of children remain un-immunized, the Poliovirus sustains survival and circulation. With every successive round of Pulse Polio Immunization, the areas of Poliovirus circulation get reduced. For which, active participation is solicited from General public and all other stake holders. The next Sub National Immunization day for Polio is scheduled to be held on September 15, 2019 in above mentioned 13 districts of the state.
CM EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal today visited residence of Lt. Pilot Ashish Tanwar in Sector-2, Palwal today and expressed condolences to the bereaved family members. Ashish Tanwar is survived by his wife Sandhya, father Radhe Lal, mother Saroj and, sister Anjula Tanwar.
The Chief Minister said that the State Government is with the family members of Ashish Tanwar in this hour of grief. Ashish has left the mark of his ability at a very young age. The sudden loss is difficult to compensate, he added.
The Chief Minister was accompanied by Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Mr. Krishan Pal Gurjar, Political Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. Deepak Mangla, BJP District President, Mr. Jawahar Singh Sorout, Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Yashpal and Superintendent of Police, Mr. Narendra Bijrania.
It may be recalled that the AN 32 aircraft of Indian Air Force, which flew from Jorhat of Assam on June 3 for Mechuka of Arunachal Pradesh, lost communication after about half an hour. 13 soldiers, including Ashish Tanwar, were in the plane. On June 13, the search campaign team confirmed the death of all 13 soldiers after finding the aircraft wreck.
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