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Polio drops administration for children on 10th March

Posted on: 16/Feb/2019 11:45:43 AM
The Public Health Department of the state government of Tamil Nadu has announced that an intense and active polio drops administration camp for children is scheduled on 10th March throughout Tamil Nadu.

In order for the target undertaken to eradicate polio completely in the country, all children under the age of 5 years are administered with polio drops in 2 installments every year during the months of January and February from the year 1994.

With this effort, India has also joined the list of countries which have eradicated polio completely.

However, the system of polio drops administration has been persisted (and not dropped) with. The Central government has taken a decision to administer polio drops for children only once a year from the current year.

Accordingly, the central government had earlier announced that the polio drops administration will be conducted on 3rd March throughout the country. All the states started the preparation activities for organizing the polio drops administration camp.

Meanwhile, due to some particular reasons, the central government announced that the programme of administering polio drops on 3rd March is being withdrawn and postponed. Later, it announced the date as 10th March.

Presently, the Tamil Nadu State Government Health Department has announced that polio drops administration camp will now be scheduled on 10th March.

In a notification about this, it is mentioned that 43051 polio drops administration centres are being set up throughout Tamil Nadu.

Polio drops will be administered for children below the age of 5 years including the children of the labourers who have migrated to Tamil Nadu from 7.00 AM to 5.00 PM.

For the facility of the parents/children, polio drops administration centre/facility has been set up in all major bus stations, railway stations, Testing Booths, and airports.

More than 2 lakhs people are being deployed in this polio drop administration camps. As polio drops administrations have been hugely successful and popular in the state of Tamil Nadu, it may be noted that the state of Tamil Nadu has attained the status/achievement that there have been no polio complaints in the state over the last 15 years.