Nearly 24 lakh children, under five years age, in Haryana were administered polio drops today under the National Immunisation Round for Polio-2017, an official said.
Around 59 per cent of the targeted 40 lakh children were covered in the first day of the national immunisation round, a health department spokesman said.
"The children were immunised at specially set up booths and this campaign will continue for two more days, by way of house-to-house activity to trace and administer polio drops to the left out children," he said.
To carry out the campaign, a total of 16,261 booths were set up in the state and these were manned by around 67,000 health officials, volunteers, anganwari workers and Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), the spokesman said.
During this round, special attention has been paid to high-risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating population and construction sites so that no child is missed in these areas, he said.
Around 1,500 mobile teams are working to reach to children in poorly connected areas, the spokesman said.
He said, "Wherever pockets of children remain un-immunised, the polio virus sustains survival and circulation".
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