Anti-polio drive to launch in Balochistan, KP, FATA from Monday

Dunya News

Foolproof arrangements have been finalized for security of the polio teams.

(Web Desk) - A three-day polio eradication campaign will begin in Balochistan on Monday.

A spokesman of polio emergency center told Radio Pakistan Quetta correspondent that all arrangements have been finalised to immunize over two million children in the province.

Over six thousand mobile teams have been formed while tough security arrangements have been made to avoid any untoward incident.

Meanwhile, health officials have requested parents to cooperate with polio teams for the safe future of their children.

A three-day anti-polio campaign in 24 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will begin from tomorrow.

During the campaign, more than fifty five hundred thousand children below the age of five years would be administered anti-polio drops.

The provincial health department has constituted fifteen thousand three hundred ninety eight mobile, fixed and transit teams for this purpose.

Meanwhile, four-day anti-polio drive will also start in FATA tomorrow.

More than nine lakh eighty thousand children would be administered anti-polio drops for which three thousand six hundred and ninety eight teams have been constituted.

Foolproof arrangements have been finalized for security of the polio teams.