Inaugurating the five-day long province-wide anti-polio campaign by administering anti-polio drops to the children, the Punjab chief minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has expressed his resolve to eliminate the polio virus with collective efforts.

"Collective efforts are being made to completely eradicate polio from the country and we will have to work with renewed zeal to defeat polio as it is a national issue," the CM said, adding: "The world is polio-free but regrettably this disease exists in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

The chief minister maintained that more than 50 thousand teams will administer anti-polio drops to around 20 million children of less than five year age during this door to door campaign. He asked the parents to cooperate with the anti-polio teams to make Punjab a polio-free province. Success is the only option in this continues struggle of securing the future of the children, he added.

Provincial ministers Dr Yasmin Rashid, Raja Basharat, Saeed-ul-Hasan Shah, assembly members Sanaullah Mastikhel and Ch. Shahbaz Ahmed also administered anti-polio drops to the children. Chief Secretary, Secretary (P&SH) and others were also present.