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93,000 children in Puducherry to be given polio drops

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Press Trust of India Puducherry
Around 93,000 children aged below five would be administered polio drops in the union territory under the two-round Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme on January 27 and February 21.

A release from the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare today said around 2,000 staff would be deployed to administer the drops.

A total of 441 booths and 17 transit and border booths had been set up for the purpose, it said.

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First Published: Jan 14 2016 | 9:28 PM IST

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