Anti-polio campaign begins today

A three-day country-wide national immunisation campaign against polio will start from Tuesday to administer oral anti-polio vaccine to more than 32 million children below five years of age. The campaign will continue for three days till March 9.
The federal and provincial governments, have constituted 75,000 teams comprising 150,000 health workers and volunteers who would go door-to-door to administer polio drops to children, Advisor on Heath Education, Mazhar Nisar told APP here Monday.
He said the government was making efforts for complete eradication of polio from the country adding, there were only 27 cases of polio were reported from Punjab.
He appealed to the parents to bring their children to the vaccination centre to save them from the polio.