Countrywide Polio Immunization Drive Continues

A countrywide campaign to administer anti-polio drops to 39 million children under age of five years continued on Tuesday throughout the country

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Apr, 2019 ) :A countrywide campaign to administer anti-polio drops to 39 million children under age of five years continued on Tuesday throughout the country.

According to an official of National Emergency Operations Centre for the Polio Program, during this campaign, 260,000 frontline polio workers were going door to door to ensure children were vaccinated with two drops of vaccine to protect them against the polio virus.

He said that the anti-polio drive will target children in all four provinces, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan against the crippling disease.

The official said that during this vaccination campaign, a total of 20 million children below the age of five years will be administrated polio vaccine in Punjab while nine million children will be vaccinated in Sindh.

Similarly, over 6.8 million children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 2.4 million children in Balochistan will be administered anti-polio drops.

The official said that Islamabad will be implementing the polio campaign targeting 0.4 million children while 0.7 million children will be vaccinated in AJK. He said that in Peshawar over 1.6 million children of over 10 year of age will be vaccinated.

He said that considering the present risks due to poliovirus circulation, the government has urged parents to ensure immunization of all children during each and every polio campaign.