In connection with the National Immunization Day, a pulse polio program will be taken up in the city on March 10.
This was announced by Hyderabad District in-charge Collector G Ravi at a review meeting.
He said that there were 4,85,965 children below the age of five in the city, and that instructions were issued to the health authorities to administer pulse polio drops to all of them.
The programme would be taken up from 7 am to 6 pm, he said, and advised all parents to ensure that their chidren were given polio drops without fail.
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