Through PTI
JAIPUR: Kids as much as 5 years of age will likely be administered polio vaccine within the state on Sunday as a part of a marketing campaign to get rid of the illness, officers mentioned.
Well being Minister Parsadi Lal Meena had appealed for the force to be hung on February 27, announcing polio will also be eliminated best via administering its vaccine to the kids. In a observation, Meena mentioned 54,627 polio cubicles were arrange around the state to make the marketing campaign a luck.
Aside from this, 2,215 transit groups and three,381 cellular groups were shaped. He mentioned that at the first day of the marketing campaign, the drugs can be given on the cubicles The ones omitted will likely be administered the drugs in a door-to-door force via well being staff for the following two days.
The minister mentioned the remaining case of polio within the state got here to gentle in November 2009. Since then, no longer a unmarried case has been reported. He mentioned no new case of polio has been present in our nation after January 2011.
Considerably, India used to be declared polio-free via the International Well being Group on twenty seventh March 2014, Meena added. He mentioned that the second one segment of Project Indradhanush 4.0 will likely be organised from March 7. On this, similar vaccines will likely be given to kids as much as two years of age and pregnant ladies.
He knowledgeable that the primary segment of this yr used to be organised from February 7 and the 3rd segment will get started from April 4. That is the twenty seventh yr of the Pulse Polio programme, which used to be introduced in 1995.