Anti-polio drive launched in major parts of Pakistan

A massive three-day anti-polio campaign is being launched in major parts of Pakistan.

In Lahore (Punjab’s provincial capital) alone five thousand teams have been constituted to administer anti-polio vaccine to 1.8 million children up to five years of age.

While thousands of teams in twenty-seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province have also initiated the anti-polio vaccination drive – where as per the Provincial Health Department, more than four million children below the age of five years will be administered anti-polio drops during the campaign.

In the Balochistan province the anti-polio vaccination drive has been started from Quetta and Pishin districts – where over four thousand teams have been constituted for administering polio drops to the children at their doorsteps.