Anti-polio drive to begin in KP, Fata today

14 Mar, 2016

A three-day anti-polio campaign in 24 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata will begin on Monday (today). During the campaign, more than fifty five hundred thousand children below the age of five years would be administered anti-polio drops. The provincial health department has constituted fifteen thousand three hundred ninety eight mobile, fixed and transit teams for this purpose.
Meanwhile, four-day anti-polio drive will also start in FATA tomorrow. More than 0.9 million children would be administered anti-polio drops for which three thousand six hundred and ninety eight teams have been constituted. Foolproof arrangements have been finalised for security of the polio teams.

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