National Anti-polio Campaign Continues In Larkana

A four-day national anti-polio campaign being observed to make Pakistan a polio free country, successfully continued in the district on the second consecutive day on Tuesday.

LARKANA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Nov, 2018 ) :A four-day national anti-polio campaign being observed to make Pakistan a polio free country, successfully continued in the district on the second consecutive day on Tuesday.

The teams are visiting door-to-door, remote and far-flung areas of the district to administer Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to 1,178,360 children up to five years of age.

The district health departments of Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore have deputed more than 3,100 mobile and fixed teams which will visit every house in the five districts of the Larkana and administered Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to the 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.