Countrywide Anti-polio Campaign To Continue For Four Days

A Four-day nationwide anti-polio campaign kicked-off across the country on Monday.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Dec, 2018 ) :A Four-day nationwide anti-polio campaign kicked-off across the country on Monday.

A spokesman of the Provincial Health Department talking to private news channel said, Polio teams will go door-to-door and administer oral polio vaccine drops to children under the age of five.

In Punjab, over forty-eight thousand teams have been constituted for the four day campaign to vaccinate children upto five years age all over the province.

In one hundred eighty-eight union councils of Karachi, two point four million children will be administered anti-polio vaccine during five-day drive.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, about 5.9 million children will be administered anti-polio vaccine during three-day campaign.

In Balochistan, Four-day anti- polio drive will be carried out in Quetta, Pishin and Qilla Abdullah while three day drive in rest of the districts.

During the campaign, 2.5 million children up to five years age would be administered anti-polio vaccine.

In Azad Kashmir, over seven hundred thousand children up to five years of age would be administered anti polio drops in all ten districts of the state.

Special security arrangements have also been made by the government to provide safety to the polio teams. Police and Rangers personnel have been deployed with all the teams.

Provincial Co-coordinator Polio Emergency Operation Centre Rashid Razzaq also said that during anti-polio drive 2.5 million children up to of five year of age would be administered anti- polio vaccination.

He also appealed religious scholars of the province to motivate parents with regard getting polio drops administered to their children.