National Polio Campaign Starts In Five Distts Of Larkana Region
Faizan Hashmi Published September 20, 2021 | 02:44 PM
Six days National Polio Vaccination Campaign for polio eradication started in Larkana Division on Monday to make Pakistan a polio free country
LARKANA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Sep, 2021 ) :Six days National Polio Vaccination Campaign for polio eradication started in Larkana Division on Monday to make Pakistan a polio free country.
The campaign will cover Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore districts of Larkana division upto September 26, 2021.
The teams visiting door-to-door, remote and far-flung areas of the Five Districts to administer Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) and vitamin A to the 1178360 children up to age of five years.
The District Health Departments Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore districts have deputed more than 3160 mobile and fixed teams which will visit every house in the five districts of the Larkana region and administered Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) and vitamin A to the children upto five years age.
Mobile Anti-polio teams visited Schools, bus stands and railway stations and also went door-to-door to give anti-polio drops to the children, in remote/far-flung areas, rural and urban areas of five districts to accomplish the task.
The officials of the Health Department have appealed the people of Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore districts that they should come forward and co-operate with mobile teams of health department who would visit door to door for administrating anti-Polio drops to their children.
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