Nine-day polio eradication campaign begins in Karachi today

Nine-day polio eradication campaign begins in Karachi today

A nine-day polio eradication campaign is commencing in one hundred six Union Councils of Karachi today.

More than 1.5 million children of upto five years age will be administered anti-polio vaccine while for the first time injections of polio vaccine would also be given to over 1.48 million children. Meanwhile, a special three-day anti-polio campaign is also commencing in twenty one districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today.

During the campaign, over four million children below the age of five years will be administered anti-polio vaccine.