Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has inaugurated a three-day anti-polio campaign by administering polio vaccine drops to the children in Children Hospital on Saturday. Representatives of World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF, Member Provincial Assembly Asad Ashraf, Provincial Secretary Health, doctors and nurses of Children Hospital and a large number of mothers and children were present on the occasion.
Addressing the function, the Chief Minister said that more than 1,66,00,000 children will be administered polio vaccine during anti-polio campaign in the province to be started from April 23, so that the future of the children could be saved from this fatal disease. He said that provincial government has constituted 38 thousand teams for making the anti-polio drive successful which will administer polio vaccine to the children at their doorstep.