New Delhi: National pulse polio immunisation programme has kickstarted on Sunday in several states. Having targetted to administer 57.61 lakh children under five years in the state on the first day of the campaign, the Tamil Nadu government could cover 56.18 lakh, which is 97.53 per cent of the children.


The health officials to conduct a door-to-door survey in the next three days to administer polio drops to the remaining children in the state, The New Indian Express reported. Besides this, in the next three days, parents can get their children administered by walking into any government health institutions 


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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin launched a polio vaccination camp at Chennai's Teynampet and he has administered polio drops to some of the children under five years.






The state government reportedly set up 43,051 booths in PHCs, government hospitals, integrated child development scheme centres, schools are among the places as part of the national pulse polio immunisation campaign.


Over 93 per cent of children in the age group of five years were reportedly covered in 2021. 65.3 lakh children were administered polio drops against the government's target of 70.26 lakh children, reports TNIE.


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Meanwhile, the nation-wide pulse polio campaigns have been started other state governments. Union Minister G Kishan Reddy administered drops to some of the kids in Hyderabad in Telangana. While Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai has given polio drops to some kids at one of the pulse polio camps in Bengaluru.