Vaccination: CM forms team to monitor polio campaign

Three polio cases in the district had raised serious concerns.

Monitoring team is comprised of senior Health Department officers, representatives of WHO, UNICEF and GATES Foundation. PHOTO: SHAFIQ MALIK

LAHORE:


A joint monitoring team comprising senior Health Department officers, representatives of the WHO, the UNICEF and the GATES Foundation has been formed to monitor a special anti-polio campaign from 8 to 11 January in Toba Tek Singh and Shorkot.


The team has reached the district to review micro planning for the anti-polio campaign, Special Secretary Health Babar Hayat Tarar said on Sunday. He said three polio cases in the district had raised serious concerns.


Published in The Express Tribune, January 6th, 2014.

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