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SALEM: Over 5 lakh children aged below five years in Salem and Namakkal districts were administered polio drops in the second round of the pulse polio immunisation campaign held on Sunday.

Awareness programmes were organised to dispel the misconceptions about the administration of polio drops and encourage people to immunise their children against polio.

More than two lakh children were administered Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) in the pulse polio campaign on Sunday.

The campaign was inaugurated by Principal Secretary (Medical and Health) Pradeep Shukla at Bal Mahila Chikitsalaya in Indira Nagar by administering polio drops to a child.

Chandigarh: Polio drops were administered to more than 80,000 children in the city on Sunday. About 463 stationary booths and 66 mobile teams were also put up by the Chandigarh Administration Health Department.

Agencies
Jabalpur: Acting on a public interest petition on alleged malnutrition deaths of children in four districts of Madhya Pradesh, the state High Court has directed respective district Collectors and anganwadi field workers to appear before the court on February 5.

Taluk Panchayat President Nagesh Kundalpady instructed the nodal officers to take measures for the quick implementation of projects undertaken through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).

ISLAMABAD (January 29 2009): The government of Japan will provide US $4.7 million to United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) for eradication of polio in Pakistan. These funds would be used to procure 26 million doses of oral polio vaccine during 2009 that constitutes seven percent of the total requirement.

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Ahmedabad : For the last two days, primary schoolchildren in remote villages in Barvala taluka, Ahmedabad district, have been getting free typhoid vaccination. This is to ensure that the illness does not disrupt their studies as it does each year.