Patna: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the immunisation and polio eradication drive undertaken by the Bihar government to control the disease.
Country head of UNICEF Cecileo Adorana, who met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday, told reporters after meeting the chief minister that only seven cases of polio had been reported till March in the current year as against 29 cases reported last year.
Stating that routine immunisation drive, which covered only 11 per cent of the population last year, had shown marked increase at 25 per cent in the first four months of the present year, Adorana said UNICEF proposed to raise the coverage polio immunisation to 80 per cent in the next few years.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar also expressed satisfaction over polio eradication drive and decrease in polio cases. He said the state government was committed to improving the conditions of government hospitals by equipping them with modern diagnostic equipment.
The district magistrates have been asked to prepare the detailed project report (dpr) for the up gradation of primary health centres and government hospitals, Kumar said.
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