More than 1.2 million children of up to 5 years old would be administered polio drops in Faisalabad, said a health department spokesman. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
On the first day of the three-day campaign in Sialkot, polio teams vaccinated 6,000 children in 95 nomadic settlements.
Workers also distributed candies among the children after they were given vaccination.
District Coordination Office Iftikhar Ali Sahu presided over the vaccination of nomad children on Kashmir Road.
A three-day anti-polio drive also commenced in the Faisalabad and Bahawalpur districts on Monday. A Health Department spokesman said that more than 1.2 million children of up to 5 years old would be administered polio drops in Faisalabad.
He said 2,762 teams had been constituted for the purpose. In Bahawalpur, he said over 545,000 children would be given polio vaccination. He said 1,284 polio teams had been constituted for the purpose.
Of these, he said, 145 teams would be stationed at hospitals, basic health units, rural health centres, general bus stand, railway station and toll plazas; while 1,019 were mobile teams that would visit houses to immunise children.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2014.
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