Community based surveillance complements conventional facility
based surveillance and possess great potential to improve the sensitivity of surveillance system. This finding reviled that, VCMs significantly contributed not only in AFP case detection and reporting but also early detection of AFP cases when compared with HF presented cases by two and half days.
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