Polio drive

The complex campaign follows confirmation last week that a baby was paralysed by the type 2 polio virus

Constable was on polio security duty in the Sara Khawora camp of Matni police station

Over 4.42 million children under the age of five are set to receive polio drops

Recent cases serve as a stark reminder of the persistent threat posed by this crippling disease

Nationwide effort, spanning from Feb 26 to March 3, is set to vaccinate over 45.8 million children across country

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In Lahore and Rawalpindi, the campaign will extend over seven days

Polio volunteers safe as officials confirm campaign continues undeterred

Campaign to inoculate 1m children to carry on for 2 more days

Latest case involves an 18-month-old boy in K-P reported to be undernourished, health ministry says

Anti-polio campaign being conducted in 7 districts of Punjab

The new $798.7m plan will be funded by a $192.5m loan from IDB and $606m in grants from GPEI

718,000 children to be administered anti-polio drops

Polio vaccination in the provinces will start from Monday

Coming from a heavy toll of 147 wild polio cases in 2019 and 84 previous year to only one thus far is a mega success

More than 35 million children have already been vaccinated in the first four days

Disruption of the drive has raised fears of a spike in polio cases in Pakistan

In her latest video, the actor has requested her followers to support anti-polio drives

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'No news of torture or verbal altercations in any part of the country was received'

Launches vaccination drive by giving drops to health minister

Such rumours have given rise to suspicion about the vaccine among the people

The campaign aims to administer polio drops to as many as 20 million children across the country

Petition states teachers engaged in campaigns did not attend school, which wasted student’s time

Rawalpindi authorities say polio drive to start from February 18

Campaign was postponed due to Ramazan and the general elections

Arrangements have been made to provide security to the teams

Campaign in response to the first case in the province in over a year

Minister confirms campaign will be delayed by a day in Lahore due to NA-120 by-polls

Some 2,181 polio teams would go door-to-door and administer oral polio vaccine drops to 829,000 children

More than 45,000 teams are taking part in the campaign.

Starting tomorrow, around 0.6 million children will be vaccinated against crippling polio virus

Levies officials have vaccinated over 21,000 children in Kohlu since April 17

As many as 193,900 children under five years of age will be vaccinated during the campaign

Refusal cases present a daunting challenge to inoculators

Fata EOC confirmed that all the arrangements have been finalised for the campaign

The health department officials have been directed to remain vigilant

The district has been divided into four zones

All stakeholders must work together for eradicating the polio virus

DCO Nadeem Rahman Muqam chaired a meeting of the District Polio Eradication Committee on Friday

Reasons of children missing a polio campaign included teams not visiting every house

Sukkur district health officer has been directed to properly manage the immunisation drives

Nearly seven million children in 21 districts to be administered vaccine

Campaign will cover South Waziristan Agency, FRs DI Khan, Tank.

Rafiq said the campaign was being organised after polio virus was found in an environment sample in Dera Ghazi Khan

Minister says proportion of positive environmental samples all time low.

Special counters were set up at parks, railway stations, bus stands and airport

During the convention, participants said around 354 teams were constituted for the immunisation drive

Incident takes place in DG Khan a day after a similar attack was reported from Shikarpur

Political agents, commissioners will supervise campaign