Around 9,000 polio booths will be set up on Sunday to administer polio vaccine to children aged five and under in the Capital. Some 30,000 employees of the Health department will be deployed at public places, including railway stations, metro stations, temples, Appu Ghar, McDonald's, the zoo and Millennium Park. Stalls will be set up between 9 am and 4 pm.
Dikshit expressed her concern over two reported cases of polio in Delhi and announced that her government would intensify its efforts to fully eradicate polio.
At the campaign launch, Dikshit also administered anti-polio drops to a number of children, in the presence of Health Minister Yoganand Shastri, NDMC Chairperson Parimal Rai and senior representatives of Rotary International. After, a door-to-door week-long survey will be conducted under a search and immunisation pulse polio campaign. Under this programme, 17,000 workers will visit different colonies, including slum clusters, to administer polio drops.