Polio immunization

JAKARTA (JP): The City Health Office will provide polio immunization services for about 928,100 children under five years old throughout the city on Sept. 13 and Oct. 18.

Aslan Lasman, head of the office, said yesterday that the city's immunization services are part of the worldwide polio immunization program, which hopes to eradicate poliomyelitis by the year 2000.

Aslan said that more than 10,000 immunization posts have been set up in all residential areas throughout the city.

About 25,000 medics will be deployed to handle the immunization program, he said, while urging all parents to bring their children to the nearby posts to get the two-droplet polio immunization vaccines.

"All children aged below five in the city will be given the vaccines, regardless of their previous vaccinations," he said.

He said that the city's immunization program will cost about Rp 1.7 billion (US$772,727), of which Rp 1 billion is being put up by the city administration. (32)