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The recent polio infection in an unvaccinated baby in Gaza is the first time the disease has been reported in the territory in more than 25 years.
The volunteers would also visit homes, on March 4 and 5, to ensure that all children below five years have been administered the polio vaccine.
Jaison, a native of Varappuzha in Ernakulam district, has given complaints to the Minister, panchayat director, Commissioners for Persons with Disabilities and other officials concerned, stating that there are no facilities for him to reach the first-floor office.
The incident took place at Bhanbora Primary Health Centre in Kapsikopri village on Sunday when the National Pulse Polio vaccination drive for children aged 1-5 years was underway.
Those arriving for the vaccination should follow the COVID-19 guidelines such as wear masks, sanitise their hands and maintain social distancing.
Thomas was infected with disabling and life-threatening polio when he was just one and a half years old.
Attempts to eradicate the crippling disease have been seriously hampered by deadly targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militants, who oppose the drives, claiming the polio drops cause infertility.
This dangerous hostility to immunization teams flared last week after religious hardliners in the city spread false rumours, raising a scare on social media that some children were being poisoned and dying from contaminated polio vaccines.
The Health Ministry has ordered a probe after traces of polio type 2 virus were found in some batches of oral polio vaccine (OPV) manufactured by a Ghaziabad-based company.