Pulse polio immunisation drive focuses on nomadic groups

                                                Pulse polio immunisation drive focuses on nomadic groups                        

DC CORRESPONDENT

ONGOLE, APRIL 15

The people were asked to cooperate with government to restrain polio during the pulse polio immunization programme here on Sunday. The Prakasam collector, Ms Anita Rajendra while inaugurating the immunization programme at urban health center of Gandhinagar said that health is wealth hence people should provide good health to their children with the help various vaccinations. She added that as many as 2500 centres were serving people to administer polio drops in the district and asked people to bring their kids to their nearest centres for polio drops. She added that health staff and workers would conduct house-to-house visit on April 16 to administer polio drops to children who failed to get drops on Sunday.

Mentioning public’s blind belief about getting illness with immunization, Ms Anita ruled out the same as baseless and added that it is dangerous if children fail to get polio drops as polio will switch people as disabled persons. The district medical and health officer, Dr K. Sudhakarbabu said that they are concentrating on nomadic groups towards prevention of polio and explained about advantages of polio drops. He added that mobile teams were operative at railway stations, bus-stands, toll gate centers and other areas. Later Ms Anita went to Nehurunagar of Ongole and administered polio drops to children of nomadic tribes.

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