10 million children will be targeted during polio campaign to be launched from Feb. 28
Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Friday that since July 2020 no new polio case has emerged due to regular vaccination campaigns in the province.
“Zero polio cases across the province is good news for the future of the children of Pakistan,” he said.
His comments came as he launched a week-long anti-polio drive by administering polio drops to children at CM House.
Briefing the CM, Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho said that the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for polio has launched a province-wide polio campaign from February 28 to March 6, as part of the national immunisation days, to give oral polio drops to over almost 10 million children under 5-years of age across the province.
The campaign is conducted in all 30 districts of the province. She said that out of the targeted 9 million children, more than two million live in Karachi. A total of 70,000 polio workers with more than 10,000 supervisors will take part in this campaign, the CM was told.
The chief minister said: “Thanks to regular campaigns our province has not reported a single case of polio since July 2020 and environment samples have also been found negative across the province since July 2021 which is great news for the future of the children of Pakistan.
“If we continue with the same momentum, we will further see significant results, but we must not get complacent and continue the hard work,”...
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