Overview
- The National Pulse Polio campaign is set for June 28 and will use designated booths to give polio drops to children aged 0–5 with door-to-door mop-ups planned for June 29–30 to vaccinate any missed children.
- Visakhapatnam has identified 189,712 eligible children and will deploy 1,062 polio booths, 62 transit booths, 94 mobile booths, 2,004 special teams, 4,518 vaccinators, 120 supervisors, 209,653 bOPV doses and 49 cold-chain units.
- Panvel Municipal Corporation aims to vaccinate 64,172 children using 460 vaccination teams across 26 Urban Health Centres, operating 392 fixed booths, 23 transit teams and 45 mobile teams.
- Gwalior authorities have completed district- and block-level micro-planning and team training and are instructing ANMs and ASHA workers to follow named beneficiary lists to ensure full coverage.
- The drive uses the bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) and relies on frontline workers, transit booths at transport hubs and community mobilisation to maintain population immunity and reduce the chance of polio re-emerging.