Polio dose administered

Kathmandu, January 21:

The Child Health Division (CHD) under the Ministry of Health and Population today administered oral polio vaccines (OPVs) to the children under five years of age in 15 high-risk districts in the first day of its Sub-Intensified National Immunisation days (S-NIDs).

Dr Sun Lal Thapa, programme manager, Integrated Management on Childhood Illness (IMCI), CHD, said the S-NIDs were being held after three new cases of polio virus were detected in the Terai districts of Sarlahi and Rautahat.

The S-NIDs will continue till tomorrow. Dr Thapa said that OPVs will be administered to over 1.8 million children of the high-risk districts in the eastern, central and far-western development regions, namely Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Saptari, Siraha, Udayapur, Bara, Chitwan, Dhanusha, Parsa, Rauthat, Sarlahi, Mahottari, Kailali and Kanchanpur.