A five-day anti-polio drive will be launched on May 8 across the district. District Polio Chairman Chaudhry Muhammad Hussain told that 3,723 teams, including 3,272 mobile teams, 289 fixed points, 214 union council doctors, and 765 district commissioners, are vaccinating more than 947 to 14,000 children against polio during the campaign since May 8. Younger years. out of five.
He informed that polio drops will also be administered at 162 transit points while teams will be deployed at toll booths to ensure that no child is deprived of vaccination.
According to details, a massive polio drive will begin in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Balochistan districts targeting more than 4 million children under the age of five.
In Punjab, more than 2.8 million children under the age of five will be vaccinated in eight districts during the four-day drive.
Meanwhile, a three-day anti-polio campaign will begin in seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, during which more than 1.3 million children will be vaccinated.
179,128 children remained unvaccinated against polio in Punjab, 137,532 in Sindh, 135,557 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 77,435 in Balochistan, 14,309 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and 3,586 children.
Sources privy to the development said 86,286 children also went missing during the anti-polio drive in various areas, while 403,559 children were unavailable during the three phases of the anti-polio drive.
