Port Blair, Feb 27: The Union Territory of A&N Islands observed the ‘National Immunization Day for Polio’ in the entire Territory today on 27th February 2022. Total 559 fixed booths were established. Arrangements were made to cover the children at bus terminals, sea ports. Apart from this, arrangements were also made to cover the children travelling by Inter Island Vessels as well as at Veer Savarkar International Air Port, Port Blair.
In A & N Islands out of 24571 children, 23859 children in the age group of 0-5 years were administered Polio vaccine on 1st day, which includes Port Blair and Defence area. The District Wise coverage is given below.
1 South Andaman: 15670 - 95.96%
2 North & Middle Andaman: 5818 - 98.29%
3 Nicobar: 2371 - 102.07%
Total: 23859 - 97.10%
Total 97.10 % has been covered on 1st day, this will follow two days’ of house-to-house visit on 28th February and 1st March, 2022. Private practitioners of these Islands also actively participated in making the ‘National Immunization Day for Polio’ a grand success”.