The campaign is expected to resume today. PHOTO: FILE
The campaign is expected to resume on Friday. Meanwhile, some 238,679 children have been administered anti-polio drops in the first two days of the campaign.
Children up to 10-years-of-age are being administrated polio drops in 16 Union Councils (UCs) of the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) and the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) areas which have consistently returned positive sewage samples.
Rawalpindi Health Authority Chief Executive Dr Rashid Khan had said that the age limit for administrating polio drops had been raised because of the environmental samples testing positive for the virus. The government, he said, had decided to adopt a zero-tolerance policy to administer polio vaccination to all the children.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 22nd, 2019.
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