After administering the polio vaccine to a large chunk of the targeted number of children under five years of age, the 5-day integrated national polio eradication drive successfully concluded in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) by the end of the stipulated time on Friday, official sources said. Like the rest of the country, the integrated anti-polio campaign started across AJK State on January 08, 2008, and continued till the stipulated timeframe of 4.00 p.m. on Friday, January 12, without any pause, immunizing a significant portion of the total targeted total of 7,42,500 children under five years of age, administered the polio vaccine in all ten districts of the liberated territory, the AJK State Health sources told APP late Friday. The sources continued that in AJK’s metropolis, Muzaffarabad, over 1.20 lakh children up to five years of age were targeted to be administered the polio vaccines during the drive, which lasted by the stipulated last day of January 12 without any break. “At least 3995 mobile teams of paramedical staff were constituted to visit door to door to administer the polio vaccine drops during the campaign across AJK, with 448 fixed centers at the local government.” The sources said hospitals and subordinate health facilities were set up by the State Polio Eradication Committee of the AJK State Health Services Department with the coordination of the World Health Organization (WHO). The total staff involved in the AJK-wide national drive includes mobile teams comprising over 5000 workers who visited door-to-door to immunize children under five years of age with the polio vaccine drops during the campaign, the sources pointed out. The sources said the fixed centers were set up at state-run hospitals, primary health units, rural health centers, and various other spots to vaccinate the children with the anti-polio drops. A total of 169 transit points were also set up for conducting the drive-by under the supervision of the concerned area in charge, the sources said.
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