Anti-polio campaign

4,869 teams mobilised to carry out vaccination drive

Administration announces fines, potential jail sentences for parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated

Kakar urges religious scholars, clerics to play their role in convincing parents

Health experts say routine immunisation plays key role in disease prevention

Week-long drive has been planned after a sample tested positive

Kills three terrorists; Dera DPO safe in attack on his convoy, officer injured

Campaign against the crippling disease will now commence from September 5, says official

The incident is the second consecutive attack on polio teams in K-P

Five-day anti-polio campaign aims to immunise 2.5 million children up to the age of five

Seven-day drive aims to inoculate 7.5m children across 22 districts of Sindh

Funds will be utilised for anti-polio campaigns across the country and at transit points along the border

Over 1,100 polio vaccination refusals

More than 2.5 million children of less than five years would be administered with polio drops

Over 30,000 healthcare workers deployed

50,000 workers will vaccinate over nine million children during the anti-polio campaign

Police personnel to be deployed for security of mobile polio teams

Two new cases confirmed by NIH

Indecision on part of the Punjab government imperilled anti-polio campaign’s future

More than 2,098,000 children will be vaccinated across province

Deputy Commissioner Amjad Shuaib Tareen underlines raising awareness

As many as 9.2 million children under the age of five years to administered vaccine

Face masks and sanitisers will be provided to all polio workers during the drive

Campaign will focus on selected UCs of Quetta

598 teams to administer polio vaccine to 260,632 children

Approximately 260,000 children to be vaccinated in first drive since Covid-19 outbreak

In a first, a small-scale campaign will be launched in South Waziristan

Immunisation drive to begin from July 20, special campaigns to be launched in 23 UCs

Child had received seven doses of polio vaccine

This is the ninth case to emerge in Sindh since January

12 cases of poliovirus have so far been detected in the province during the ongoing year

Speakers point out pitfalls, challenges in national immunization drives

Ambitious programme seeks to vaccinate 2.4 million children

So far, 12 polio cases have been reported in Pakistan in the current year, of which five are from Sindh.

Tally of polio-hit children by poliomyelitis has reached to nine in K-P this year

Education dept suspends registration for two other private schools, highlight 'superiority complex'

Murad says rise in cases is due to inability to carry out immunisation campaigns last year

Province's polio tally for 2020 climbs to five

Punjab EOC sets up special vaccination points all over the province to vaccinate every child on the move

Sindh's polio tally for 2019 climbs to 30

New case takes the total count in the country to 140 for the year 2019

Father claims baby girl died of an infection after being vaccinatet without consent

Meanwhile, another two cases from last year raise the province's count for 2019 to 27

At least 136 polio cases were reported in Pakistan in the year 2019

Our future generations will not forgive us if we allow them to suffer from virus, says Murad

Minister says global community recognises country’s efforts to overcome current challenges

100 teams deployed at Chaman crossing to vaccinate thousands crossing border every day

Hussain advises parents to come forward

CM concedes parental refusal poses the biggest challenge

Over 2.4 million children less than five years of age will be administered anti-polio drops

Scholars term vaccine being administered to children safe