Title - Pulse Polio campaign begins today

MYSORE: The second phase of Pulse Polio Immunization Campaign by South Western Railway Hospital (Mysore division) will be held from Sunday. SWR divisional railway manager (Mysore division) Vinod Kumar will formally launch the campaign at Mysore railway station at 9.30am by administering the vaccine to the children of travellers.Special booths are being set up at important railway stations which come under the division for the four-day campaign, wherein children up to five years will be immunized. Children who have already been administered the vaccine could be given yet another dose. The hospital authorities have made arrangements for sending qualified teams on-board important trains running in the division for administering the vaccine. An average of 20,000 people travel from/ to the Mysore station.Dr Pradeep Kumar, chief medical superintendent of Railway Hospital (Mysore division), has called upon parents of children to avail the facility.