SRINAGAR: Secretary Well being and Medical Training, Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah Sunday launched the immunization marketing campaign, commemorating the Nationwide Immunization Day, from Kids Hospital, Bemina right here.
Director Household Welfare, MCH and Immunization, Dr Tabasum Jabeen and different officers and officers of the division had been current on the event.
After launching the marketing campaign, the Secretary appreciated the contribution of well being staff for making pulse polio a terrific success.
He emphasised on the necessity for encouraging and appreciating the bottom stage staff who threat their lives to make sure vaccination to the final little one in queue.
Equally, Particular Secretary Well being and Medical Training, Amarjeet Singh alongwith Director Well being Providers Jammu, Dr Rakesh Magotra launched the marketing campaign at Authorities Hospital Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
At District headquarters, the marketing campaign was inaugurated by the respective Deputy Commissioners.
The primary day of the marketing campaign featured sales space actions with a focused little one inhabitants of 19,35,358, aged 0-5 years. On the 2nd and third day, the groups will conduct house-to-house visits to make sure protection of these missed through the sales space exercise.
A complete of 10,799 cubicles, manned by 42,929 skilled Well being Staff/Vaccinators and a couple of,169 Supervisors, together with 549 cell and 835 transit groups, had been deployed throughout the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Ample amount of pulse polio doses have been made out there at designated cubicles all through the territory.
On the finish of the primary day, stories mirrored that 16,81,808 kids (87 %) had been administered polio drops on the cubicles established throughout Jammu & Kashmir.
For the subsequent two days, the door-to-door marketing campaign will proceed, with efforts intensified to attain one hundred pc immunization protection for all kids throughout the Union Territory.
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