Staff Reporter
The Sindh Emergency Operation Centre for Polio will be conducting a polio eradication campaign across Karachi from February 10 to 17, the statement said. The drive will target approximately 2.3 million children less than 5 years of age in all six districts of the city. More than 13,000 workers and supervisors will take part in the campaign and 5,000 police personnel will provide security cover to the teams that will go door to door, the EOC said in a statement. The anti-polio vaccinators will also visit schools to administer the vaccine to children. After a difficult year for polio in 2019, the government aims to turn the tide with successive campaigns until June 2020, according to the EOC. It appealed to parents to come forward and have their children vaccinated in order to save them from this vaccine-preventable disease
