Anti-polio drive in Attock

ATTOCK:

Around 0.3 million children, up to the age of five years, will be administered polio drops in the Attock district as part of a five-day anti-polio campaign which will commence on January 11.

Local health officials said that a drive was launched on the directives of the provincial authorities after a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) case was reported in the district in July.

A five-day drive was held where polio drops were administered to some 296,662 children across the district. The campaign was held under the supervision of representatives from the provincial and federal health authorities and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The five-day polio vaccination drive will be conducted under strict preventive measures prescribed for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), they said.

Attock Deputy Commissioner Ali Anan Qamar, while chairing a meeting to review arrangements for the drive, urged that 'no-touch' vaccination method shall be adopted to maintain distance between the front line workers and children.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2020.