, minister for health and family welfare, has met the World Health Organization’s South Asia Head Dr Sunil Behl on Thursday morning has stated that over two lakh vials of inactivated polio vaccine have been procured by the state for one of the largest such special drives in the world.
Dr Behl has been touring the city's areas and observing the enumeration program which is being carried out by the government currently and the presence of the vaccine-derived polio virus in the Amberpet nala has got all the global stakeholders in the polio drive to come to Hyderabad.
Meanwhile the Officials from the central team in New Delhi and those from Centre for Disease Control in the United States would also be in the city to observe and document the polio drive and the enumeration program of identifying the children and ensuring that their parents get them to the booth for vaccination has already begun.
Dr Srinivas Rao, who is also a part of the massive program has said that this is the first special drive in the world of inactivated polio virus and hence it is being very closely observed, documented and analyzed by various agencies involved.
