Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) on Saturday said that 98 percent targets have been achieved from the five-day national polio immunization drive. According to an official of Polio Eradication Initiative, the immunization drive was started on November 30 to vaccinate over 39 million children under the age of five years across the country.
He added around 285,000 polio frontline workers visited house-to-house, observing strict SOPs for COVID-19, to ensure protection of children from the crippling polio virus. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Dr Faisal Sultan said, ‘The government is committed to make Pakistan Polio-free. We are determined to close the immunity gap in children which had unfortunately widened because of disruption of essential services due to COVID-19 pandemic.’
He said, ‘Ensuring timely and repeated vaccination of children is critical for us to reduce the immunity gap and protect them against polio.’
