Polio vaccination mandatory for travellers from FATA: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has made polio vaccination mandatory for travellers from Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

A statement issued by PM House said the army will be deployed to ensure that travellers from FATA to settled areas are administered polio vaccination. Those who refuse to take the polio vaccination will not be allowed to enter settled areas.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has also ordered that efforts to provide access to anti-polio workers in FATA be increased. The prime minister added that all available resources will be used to eliminate this disease.

A meeting of the polio task force has also been summoned by the prime minister.