Kathmandu, Jan. 7:Almost ninety nine per cent (98.9 %) success was recorded in the immunisation of children with polio drops on November 21, 1999 and December 19, 1999 under the fourth national immunisation day which targetted the immunisation of 3,798,798 children, the Children’s Health Division of the Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health has disclosed.

The report for Mugu District has so far not been available, it is learnt.

According to director of the Division Dr Hukumdev Shaha, 97.6 per cent of children in the eastern development region, 99.9 per cent in the Central Region, 97.9 per cent in the Western, 101.8 per cent in the Mid -Western and 96.9 per cent in the Far Western Region were given the polio drops on this year’s immunisation day.

Among the children immunised this year, there were 825,368 under the age of one year and 3,073,431 between the ages of one and 5 years.

Dr. Shaha said the evidence for the immunisation this time was clear as all the children were registered and the parents were given registration cards.

He said preparations for the special polio immunisation campaign to be launched on January 23, February 27 and March 26 in Kathmandu valley as well as in 33 districts bordering India are almost complete.

Under this programme, children immunised under the fourth national immunisation day and those born later will also have to be immunised compulsorily.

The division has called on all parents to immunise their children under five on those days so as to eliminate polio from the country. The immunisation will not have any adverse effect and the capacity to fight polio will increase if more polio vaccine is fed, it is stated.