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President launches countrywide Pulse Polio Programme for 2019

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eMediNexus    10 March 2019

The Hon. President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, launched the Pulse Polio programme for 2019 by administering polio drops to children less than five years old, at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in the presence of Shri JP Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare. The Hon. President administered the polio drops on the eve of the National Immunization Day, which is observed on Sunday. More than 17 crore children of less than five years across the country will be given polio drops as part of the drive of Government of India to sustain polio eradication from the country…  (PIB, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, March 9, 2019)

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