10-day anti-polio drive starts in city
A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a door-to-door polio vaccination campaign. PHOTO: AFP
Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah launched a crucial 10-day polio eradication campaign aimed at immunising over 1.1 million children under five in 85 union councils of the city.
He said 1,037,000 children, ages four months to five years, would receive fractional inactivated polio vaccine (f-IPV) injections. "In the campaign, we will use innovative, painless jet injectors to target high-risk areas in Karachi, where the polio virus still circulates.
He was talking to the media, just after launching a 10-day vital anti-polio campaign, August 15-25, 2024, by administering polio drops to children at Khalid Jameel Dispensary, Garden East on Wednesday.
Minister P&D Nasir Shah accompanied him. Provincial Ministers Sharjeel Memon, Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, and Zulfikqar Shah were also present on the occasion.
Shah said that the polio campaign launched in 85 union councils of Karachi city targeted over 1.1 million children under five to receive oral polio vaccine drops.
He added that 1,037,000 children (ages four months to five years) would receive fractional inactivated polio vaccine (f-IPV) injections.