Polio immunization

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)