Public health: Polio vaccination starts today
As many as 17.5 million children up to the age of five years will be administered polio drops.
LAHORE:
A three-day anti-polio vaccination campaign will start across the province on Monday (today). As many as 17.5 million children up to the age of five years will be administered polio drops. A spokesman of Health Department said 39,000 vaccination teams had been mobilised for this purpose. He said security arrangements for health teams at exit points of cities and districts bordering other provinces had been made.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 24th, 2014.
A three-day anti-polio vaccination campaign will start across the province on Monday (today). As many as 17.5 million children up to the age of five years will be administered polio drops. A spokesman of Health Department said 39,000 vaccination teams had been mobilised for this purpose. He said security arrangements for health teams at exit points of cities and districts bordering other provinces had been made.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 24th, 2014.