An anti-polio campaign of varied durations has begun across Pakistan Monday. During the campaign, children up to five years of age will be administered anti-polio drops. In Punjab, anti-polio teams have been constituted to administer anti-polio vaccine to 22 million children.
In Sindh, more than eighty thousand workers will go door to door to administer vaccine to over ten million children to save them from the crippling disease of polio. Likewise, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, more than seven point four million children up to five years of age will be administered anti-polio vaccine drops. In Balochistan, more than 2.5 million children up to five years of age would be administered anti-polio drops.
On November 11, the Ministry of Health reported that a 31-month-old child had been diagnosed with polio in Karachi, marking the fifth case in Pakistan this year. The health ministry has confirmed that the polio virus was found in a 31-month-old child from UC Gujro in Gadap Town of Karachi East.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where polio continues to threaten the health and well-being of children. In an effort to eradicate polio, a comprehensive polio vaccination has started in Mohmand district to administer polio drops to around 181,000 children up to the age of five.
Deputy Commissioner Mohmand, Muhammad Ihtesham, DHO Mohmand, Dr. Rafique Hayat, Deputy Commissioner Mohmand Muhammad Ihtesham Elahi, and DPO Mohmand Muhammad Ayyaz informed the media for this polio drive, 603 teams have been formed, consisting of polio workers who will go door-to-door to administer polio drops to children. The Deputy Commissioner has appealed to the public to cooperate with the campaign. that the government and the public, together, will eliminate this infectious virus.—APP
