Anti-polio Campaign Starts In Five Districts Of Larkana

A four-day national anti-polio campaign started here on Monday in five districts of Larkana to administer Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to 1,178,360 children up to five years of age.

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Dec, 2018 ) :A four-day national anti-polio campaign started here on Monday in five districts of Larkana to administer Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to 1,178,360 children up to five years of age.

The district health departments have deputed more than 3,100 mobile and fixed teams in the five districts of Larkana including Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore to administer polio drops to children.

Mobile anti-polio teams visited schools, bus stands, railway stations and also went door-to-door to give anti-polio drops to the children, in remote/far-flung, rural and urban areas of the districts to accomplish the task.

The officials of health department have appealed the people to co-operate with mobile teams who will visit door to door for administering anti-polio drops to their children.