Eighty-five children in central Nepal were administered polio drops after a child was found with polio syndrome, Nepali national news agency RSS reported on Thursday.
According to the District Public Health Office (DPHO) of Nuwakot District, some 30 km north of capital Kathmandu, a two- year-old boy of Okharpauwa Village Development Committee (VDC) was found with symptoms of polio. The doctors, after suspecting polio, sent the boy to Kanti Children's Hospital in the capital city.
In order to prevent the spread of polio in the area, other children were administered with polio drops to control the disease, DPHO added.
Nepali Department of Health (DH) had resumed immunization campaign against polio from 2006 after a few cases of the disease were detected in some areas in Indo-Nepal border areas.
The campaign was stopped in Nepal from 2000-2004 as no polio patients were seen in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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