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The Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine has begun preparations to achieve 100 per cent coverage of the annual Pulse Polio Programme, which will cover children below the age of five. The programme will be held in the third week of January. Efforts would also be taken to ascertain the migration pattern in Coimbatore district. The Health Department personnel would soon begin identifying the brick kilns, construction sites and road works, where migrant labourers were most likely to be engaged in work. This was to know the number of children requiring administration of polio drops, the Deputy Director said. The last reported case of polio in Coimbatore district was in Paiyakaroor village on August 28, 1999. The last reported victim of polio in Tamil Nadu was a three-year-old child in a Narikurava Colony of Pettai Tenkasi, Tirunelveli district, on February 18, 2004.
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