Maharashtra Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur on Sunday launched a pulse polio drive in Amravati, with a target to administer doses to over 1.72 lakh children upto the age of five.
The drive will be carried out through 959 vaccination centres, 229 transit squads, 194 mobile squads with 4832 staff members and 416 supervisors across the district, an official said.
"Over the next five days, the pulse polio drive will be held door-to-door while it will be undertaken in rural areas between January 21-23," the official said.