Anti-polio drive has begun in parts of Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.
A total of 2.498 million children will be vaccinated in Karachi, Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Larkana, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Kamber, Dadu, Nawabshah, Sanghar and Naushahro Feroze districts during five-day anti-polio drive.
In Balochistan, three-day anti-polio drive also begins in various areas of ten districts of Balochistan.
The provincial coordinator Dr. Saif-ur-Rehman said, during the drive; more than 0.5 million children under the age of five year would be administered polio drops.
Meanwhile, a three-day special anti-polio campaign begins in selected areas of FATA, Frontier Regions and eight districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
More than nine hundred sixty five thousand children in FATA and one hundred ninety nine thousand children below the age of five in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would be administered anti-polio drops during the three-day campaign.
Law enforcement agencies have taken tight security measures to provide protection to the polio team’s personnel.
