Rajasthan to manage polio vaccine to youngsters on Sunday

By PTI

JAIPUR: Children as much as 5 years of age might be administered polio vaccine within the state on Sunday as a part of a marketing campaign to eradicate the illness, officers stated.

Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena had appealed for the drive to be held on February 27, saying polio will be eradicated solely by administering its vaccine to the youngsters. In an announcement, Meena stated 54,627 polio cubicles have been arrange throughout the state to make the marketing campaign successful.

Apart from this, 2,215 transit groups and three,381 cell groups have been shaped. He stated that on the primary day of the marketing campaign, the medication can be given on the cubicles Those overlooked might be administered the medication in a door-to-door drive by well being staff for the following two days.

The minister stated the final case of polio within the state got here to gentle in November 2009. Since then, not a single case has been reported. He stated no new case of polio has been present in our nation after January 2011.

Significantly, India was declared polio-free by the World Health Organization on twenty seventh March 2014, Meena added. He stated that the second section of Mission Indradhanush 4.0 might be organised from March 7. In this, associated vaccines might be given to youngsters as much as two years of age and pregnant girls.

He knowledgeable that the primary section of this 12 months was organised from February 7 and the third section will begin from April 4. This is the twenty seventh 12 months of the Pulse Polio programme, which was launched in 1995.