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National Pulse Polio vaccination camps were held crossed Virudhunagar territory to springiness oral polio vaccine for 1.30 lakh children upto the property of 5 years connected Sunday.
Revenue Minister, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, inaugurated the vaccination campy astatine Aruppukottai successful the beingness of Virudhunagar Collector, N.O. Sukhaputra.
The camps were being held successful 1,137 centres, including astatine Government hospitals, Primary Health Centres, Anganwadi centres, schools and places of worship. The vaccination that began astatine 7 a.m. would spell connected till 5 p.m.
A connection said that a full of 4,580 workers, including wellness workers, noon-meal workers, members of aforesaid assistance groups for women, volunteers and students were progressive successful the vaccination exercise.
Virudhunagar District Health Officer, Dr. Yasodamani said that Virudhunagar was 1 of the six prime districts wherever the pulse polio vaccination was being done.
“Since we person ample fig of migrant workers, the vaccination was being done to forestall the anticipation of transmission of the virus,” she added.
The officials person acceptable up 28 mobile vaccination teams to screen children successful the Sri Lankan Tamils Rehabilitation camps and children of nomadic families. Similarly, 46 mobile units were established astatine railway stations, autobus stands, and temple festivals and matrimony functions to springiness the oral drops to travelling children.
Children who had been fixed the regular dose of polio vaccination could besides beryllium fixed the oral drops connected Sunday, the connection said. Similarly, those children who endure from fever, cough, acold and diarraohea could besides beryllium fixed the polio drops.
The left-out children would beryllium vaccinated astatine each GHs and PHCs till Saturday. Besides, the wellness workers volition besides spell for door-to-door sojourn to screen the left-out children, Dr. Yasodamani said.
