The government in partnership with national and international partners
launched a two-day 15th National Polio Immunisation Campaign today.
The anti-polio campaign will cover 68 districts, including Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley, in the first phase. The second phase will be conducted on January 25-26, 2014. In the seven remaining districts, the first phase of the campaign will be held on March 22-23, 2014 and the second phase on April 26-27. The campaign aims to cover 42, 26,996 children throughout the country by setting up 40,447 vaccination centres and mobilising 80,948 volunteers. The government has set up more than 300 vaccination centres for the purpose in the Kathmandu Valley. The programme covered all VDCs, municipalities, wards, and high-risk areas today.
Tomorrow, the volunteers will conduct a door-to-door campaign to make sure that no child is left out. Left-out children will get oral polio drops at home. The government doesn’t want any under-fives to miss out the campaign.
According to the Child Health Division, Nepal is close to becoming a polio-free country. If all goes well, Nepal may be declared a polio-free country in February, 2014. The last polio outbreak in the country was reported in Mahottari in February 2010, followed by a second outbreak in Rautahat, and the most recent case was reported on August 30, 2010.
Source : The Himalayan , 22nd Dec 2013
The anti-polio campaign will cover 68 districts, including Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley, in the first phase. The second phase will be conducted on January 25-26, 2014. In the seven remaining districts, the first phase of the campaign will be held on March 22-23, 2014 and the second phase on April 26-27. The campaign aims to cover 42, 26,996 children throughout the country by setting up 40,447 vaccination centres and mobilising 80,948 volunteers. The government has set up more than 300 vaccination centres for the purpose in the Kathmandu Valley. The programme covered all VDCs, municipalities, wards, and high-risk areas today.
Tomorrow, the volunteers will conduct a door-to-door campaign to make sure that no child is left out. Left-out children will get oral polio drops at home. The government doesn’t want any under-fives to miss out the campaign.
According to the Child Health Division, Nepal is close to becoming a polio-free country. If all goes well, Nepal may be declared a polio-free country in February, 2014. The last polio outbreak in the country was reported in Mahottari in February 2010, followed by a second outbreak in Rautahat, and the most recent case was reported on August 30, 2010.
Source : The Himalayan , 22nd Dec 2013
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