Administrator Hyderabad Aftab Ahmed Khatri has directed the officers of Health Department to ensure that all children up to five years of age are administered the anti-polio drops during the three-day campaign starting from March 15, 2010 (tomorrow), so that Hyderabad could be made a polio-free district.
He was presiding over a meeting to review the arrangements of the polio campaign in the Zila Nazim's Secretariat, here Saturday. Addressing the meeting, the administrator informed that during the campaign, more than 2,85,000 children up to 5 years of age would be administered polio drops.