Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 27

Dr Nisha Shahi, Deputy Director, Office Health and Family Welfare Punjab, and Dr Gurdeep Singh Kapoor, Civil Surgeon Nawanshahr launched a three-day anti-polio drive, on Friday in the slums of Dana Mandi, Nawanshahr, to protect the migrant children from polio.

On the occasion, Deputy Director Nisha Shahi said no child should be deprived of polio drops. District Immunisation Officer Javinderwant Singh Bains said on the first day of the Pulse Polio Campaign, a total of 2,201 children were given polio drops.

He said 246 children in Nawanshahr, 167 in Banga, 131 in Rahon, 151 in Balachaur Urban, 651 in Muzaffarpur, 230 in Mukandpur, 119 in Sujjo, 234 in Sarwa and 403 in Balachaur rural area were given polio drops. “Children who were not given polio drops would be administered the drops on June 28 and June 29 by going door-to-door.

In Muzaffarpur, as many as 12 teams were deployed to provide drops to the children of migrant workers’ families working in bus stands, railway stations, slum areas, brick kilns, buildings under construction and factories, and the doctors were present to monitor the teams.

On this occasion, Block Educator Maninder Singh also appealed to the NGOs, religious and other social organisations of the block to extend their fullest support to the children during this campaign for giving polio drops to the children and to motivate the parents to get their children vaccinated.