Haryana to cover 50 lakh child under NID scheme

by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, DEC 19
About 40 lakh children, between the age of 0-5 years, would be covered under the National Immunization Day (NID) round of Pulse Polio Campaign in Haryana which is schedule to be held from December 21 to 23.
A spokesman of the Health Department said that all arrangements have been made for the successful implementation of NID round. As many as 15,975 booths would be set up at locations convenient to the people and these would be manned by 64,000 vaccinators drawn from Health and Education Departments, Integrated Child Development Services scheme and the Non-Governmental Organizations, representatives of Haryana Unit of Indian Medical Association, self help groups and a number of volunteers would also be engaged in this drive.
He said that about 3,200 supervisors would oversee the functioning of the vaccination teams and ensure that no child was left unimmunized.
He said that focus would be laid on covering children residing in slums, labour colonies inhabited by migratory population, brick-kilns, children of industrial labour, rice-shellers, stone-crushers, construction sites, nomadic population and children in transit at bus stands, railway stations and markets. About 32,000 teams would visit door to door to vaccinate those children who failed to come to the booths due to some reasons.
The spokesman said that pulse polio immunization was one of the important strategies in addition to the routine immunization programme and aimed at eliminating the environmental wild virus (disease causing virus) through simultaneous administration of oral polio vaccine to the susceptible age group of 0-5 years. With every successive round of pulse polio immunization, the area of polio virus circulation got reduced in number and extent.