ISLAMABAD – Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday attended the meeting of National Task Force for Polio Eradication, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Gates arrived in Islamabad earlier today to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan, President Alvi and ...

ISLAMABAD- The government has decided to start sub-national polio eradication campaign to vaccinate 34 million children under the age of five in 130 districts across the country. The polio eradication campaign is starting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today and in Punjab and Sindh form 15th August whereas ...

ISLAMABAD-Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) will provide sixty million dollars to Pakistan for Polio Eradication Program. The new financing was approved by the Bank during a virtual meeting of Board of Executive Directors in Jeddah. The statement issued after the meeting said there is still much work ...

ISLAMABAD-Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has appreciated Pakistan Army's help in anti-polio campaign through provision of security, monitoring and bridging of capacity gaps. He expressed these views during telephonic conversation with Chief of Army Staff General Qamar ...

KARACHI - Three new polio cases have been reported in the country, health officials reveal. The cases have been identified in Sindh’s Karachi, Balochistan’s Jafarabad and KPK’s Torghar. One of the children has been identified as 16-month-old Hasheen, resident of Karachi. According to ...

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan says government is taking concrete steps for the eradication of polio across the province. Chairing a meeting in Peshawar today, he said strict action will be taken against those officers of health department who showed poor performance during polio ...

A country-wide campaign to administer anti-polio drops to children under five years of age starts today (Monday).  National Coordinator of Polio Eradication Programme Dr. Rana Safdar told Radio Pakistan Islamabad that the anti-polio drive will target thirty-nine million children in all four ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) here on Friday approved revised Emergency Plan for Polio Eradication at a cost of US $ 986.29 million. ECNEC, met here with Finance Minister Asad Umar in the Chair, considered and approved several other projects of social ...

ISLAMABAD - Executive Committee of the National Economic Council has approved revised emergency plan for polio eradication at a cost of 986.29 million dollars. The ECNEC, which met in Islamabad today (Friday) with Finance Minister Asad Umar in the chair, also approved feasibility study and ...