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India’s Pulse Polio Campaign Moves to House‑to‑House Follow‑Up After Strong Booth Day

Health teams are targeting missed and mobile children to preserve India’s polio‑free status through digital monitoring, transit booths, door‑to‑door visits.

Overview

  • States, which held booth‑based vaccination on June 28, reported high first‑day turnout and have begun house‑to‑house mop‑up visits on June 29 and 30 to reach children missed at booths.
  • Telangana reported 95.1 percent Day‑1 coverage with 3,895,550 children vaccinated and has deployed 22,979 booths, 903 mobile teams and more than 52 lakh bOPV doses to reach about 40.97 lakh children.
  • Andhra Pradesh identified 49.2 lakh children for the drive and said 45,24,116 (about 91.95 percent) received polio drops on June 28 while the state uses the APCHFW portal to track 29,873 booths, 59,746 house‑to‑house teams and 1,757 mobile teams.
  • Kerala aimed for 19.8 lakh children and reported 17.53 lakh (88.53 percent) vaccinated at booths on June 28, with transit and mobile booths and volunteers scheduled for door visits to cover the remainder.
  • The nationwide operation deploys large vaccine stocks, thousands of health workers and transit points to reach migrants, slum and construction‑site populations and to guard against importation of wild poliovirus given India’s polio‑free status since 2014.