Missed out children: Special anti-polio campaign launched

Around 700 police personnel are performing security duty along with polio teams in different localities.

RAWALPINDI:
The district administration on Monday launched a two-day anti-polio drive in selected areas of the city. The campaign aims to cover the children who could not be administered polio vaccine in the recently concluded campaign. These children are spread across ten union councils of Rawalpindi and are dominated by Pakhtuns, officials in the District Coordination Officer said. Around 700 police personnel are performing security duty along with polio teams in different localities, they added.


Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2013.