Crippling disease: Anti-polio drive from February 15

Over 0.7m children will be vaccinated during the drive

RAWALPINDI: A four-day anti polio drive in the Rawalpindi district is likely to begin from next week—February 15.

Almost 713,000 children in the district, below five years of age, will be administered polio drops during the campaign.

The health department is finalising arrangements, Executive District Health Officer Dr Arshad Ali Sabir said on Sunday.              “We have taken special measures to further strengthen the coverage during the anti-polio drive,” he said.



The EDO added that senior staff of the district health department would be deputed to monitor activities during the campaign.

Special counters would be established at public parks, railway stations, bus stands, wagon stands, airport and other transit points to administer anti-polio drops to the children so that no child up to the age of five years could remain unattended, he added.

Dr Sabir said the district health department would try to make Rawalpindi polio-free.

He hoped that the campaign would be result oriented and the set target would be achieved.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8^th,  2016.