Chandigarh, April 25: About 13.80 lakh children between the age of 0 and 5 years have been administered polio drops on the first day of the National Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation (NID) round of 2010-11 held in 11 districts of Haryana today.
A total of 8,775 booths were set-up at locations convenient to the community to administer polio drops to the children.
These booths were manned by about 35,000 officials of the Health Department, Anganwari workers, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), non-government organisations and Self Help Groups.
The leftout children would be administered polio drops on April 26 and 27 by the health teams making home visits.
–Agencies