Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena had appealed for the drive to be held on February 27, saying polio can be eradicated only by administering its vaccine to the children.
Jaipur: As part of the campaign to eradicate this disease in the state, children up to five years of age will be vaccinated against polio on Sunday.
On February 27, Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena appealed for the campaign, saying that polio can be eradicated only by getting children vaccinated against polio. Meena said in a statement that 54,627 polio booths have been set up across the state to make the campaign a success.
Apart from this, 2,215 transit teams and 3,381 mobile teams have been formed. He said that on the first day of the campaign, medicines will be given at the booths, those who have missed will be given medicines by the health workers in door-to-door drives for the next two days.
The minister said the last case of polio in the state was reported in November 2009. Since then, not a single case has come to the fore. He said that no new case of polio has been found in our country after January 2011.
Significantly, India was declared polio free by the World Health Organization on 27 March 2014. He said that the second phase of Mission Indradhanush 4.0 will be organized from March 7. In this, related vaccines will be given to children up to two years of age and pregnant women.
He informed that the first phase of this year was conducted from February 7 and the third phase will start from April 4. This is the 27th year of the Pulse Polio programme, which was started in 1995.