DW BUREAU / chandigarh The 2nd Sub National Immunization (SNID) round of Pulse Polio 2022-23 has started from today on September 18, 2022 in 6 districts of the State viz: Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Mewat, Sonipat and Kaithal in which booth activity was undertaken on the first day in order to maintain the polio free status of the State. In view of present scenario of Covid-19 pandemic all health officers and front line workers are taking complete precautions like use of personal protective equipment, Mask, sanitizer, gloves etc. Teams are also following Covid appropriate behaviour like hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene and other social distancing measures. While giving information in this regard, an official spokesperson of the department said that most of the districts booths have been inaugurated by eminent personalities from administration. In district Kaithal the programme activity has been inaugurated by Smt. Kamlesh Dhanda, Minister Women & Child development Haryana, in Faridabad by Sh. Mool Chand Sharma, Cabinet Minister Haryana, in Sonepat by MLA, Sh? Nirmal Chaudhary, in Gurgaon by MLA, Sh. Sudhir Singla and in Jhajjar by Chairman, MC Jhajjar. He said that approximately 14 lacs children are to be covered during this campaign in the state. This campaign will continue for another two days by way of door to door activities to trace and administer polio drops to the left out children on booth day. On the 1st day of activity, approximately 53% (7.6 lacs) children under 5 years of age have been administered polio drops. He further added that in order to smoothly carry out this campaign, around 6,600 booths were setup in the state and these were manned by approximately 26,000 health officials/volunteers/Anganwari Workers/ASHA etc. About 1000 officers/officials supervised the activity apart from Independent Monitors of NPSP-WHO. This activity was preceded by undertaking awareness campaign through print media, miking, and other IEC activities. He further informed that the left out children during the booth activity on 1st day will be administered polio vaccine drops on September 19-20, 2022 through door to door teams in high risk areas like slums, isolated hutments, brick kilns, floating/ migrating population & construction sites. It is important to know that due to consistent hard work of all stakeholder departments, India and Haryana are polio free since 2012 and with every successive round of NID/ SNID it is ensured that Polio free status of India is sustained. (editor@dailyworld.in)