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The State has exceeded its people successful the four-day Pulse Polio run that concluded connected December 25, achieving 103% sum of children successful the property radical of 0 to 5.
A full of 64,25,399 children were administered polio drops against a people of 62,40,114, according to authoritative data. The campaign, which began connected December 21, was conducted successful a azygous circular utilizing the bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV).
The vaccination was carried retired astatine booths connected December 21, followed by door-to-door visits implicit the adjacent 3 days to guarantee that nary kid was missed. While 96% of the people radical was covered during the booth-level drive, the remaining children were reached during house-to-house visits.
Under the regular immunisation programme, each kid is entitled to 5 doses of oral polio vaccine and 3 doses of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).
Kodagu tops coverage
Kodagu territory recorded the highest sum astatine 121%, followed by Bengaluru Rural (112%) and Chikkamagaluru (111%). Uttara Kannada and Mandya districts reported 109% sum each, portion Udupi and Chitradurga recorded 106% each. Shivamogga reported the lowest sum astatine 98%.
Focus connected high-risk areas
Minister for Health Dinesh Gundu Rao said the Health Department had systematically organised the campaign, reaching families successful remote, hilly, and hard-to-access regions of the State.
He said peculiar absorption was placed connected high-risk and hard-to-reach areas, including villages successful wood and hilly regions, ceramic kilns, migrant settlements, municipality slums, farmhouses, and transit points specified arsenic railway stations, metro stations, airports, and seaports.
India is simply a polio-free country, and sustaining that presumption is simply a corporate responsibility, the Minister said.
The nationalist run is being conducted arsenic a precautionary measurement to defender against the hazard of importation, arsenic polio cases proceed to beryllium reported from neighbouring countries. In 2025, Pakistan reported 51 cases and Afghanistan 10 cases of chaotic poliovirus.
For the campaign, the Health Department acceptable up 33,258 booths, supported by 1,030 mobile teams and 2,096 transit teams. A full of 1,13,115 vaccinators and 7,322 supervisors were deployed.
