Three-day polio eradication drive under way across country
Health workers will be present at railway stations, bus stands, and other public places to ensure maximum vaccination
Published May 15, 2017
A three-day polio eradication campaign was launched in different parts of the country on Monday.
More than 6.6 million children up to five years of age will be administered the anti-polio vaccine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.
According to a spokesman of the Punjab Health Department, the campaign has kicked off in Multan, Khanewal, Faisalabad, Hafizabad, and Rawalpindi districts.
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Sharing details, he said over two million children will be administered anti-polio vaccine in thirty districts of Balochistan. Moreover, in Muzaffarabad and Gilgit-Baltistan, more than 120,000 children and 236,000, respectively, will be vaccinated against the disease.
Other than going door-to-door, health workers will be posted at railway stations, bus stands and public places to ensure that every child is vaccinated.
