A total of 73082 children under five years of age would be administered polio vaccine and vitamin ‘A’ drops during a 5-day district-wide anti-polio campaign that commenced in this lake district on Thursday, it was officially announced.
The district has been divided into six zones with the induction of the one supervisor in each zone to implement the drive. One Ward in charge will supervise the campaign in the scheduled area falling in each Union Council in the district, the District Health Officer Dr. Fida Hussain disclosed while talking to APP in his office here on Thursday.
The DHO continued that Medical officers will supervise the campaign in all 28 Union Councils besides the Ward In charge deputed to supervise the drive in 88 other union councils in this native district of over seven lakh UK-based Kashmiri expatriates.—INP
