Across Pakistan, a polio campaign with varying durations has started today (Monday).
Children under the age of five will get anti-polio drops during the campaign.
To immunise 22 million children against polio, anti-polio teams have been assembled in Punjab.
More than eighty thousand workers in Sindh will knock on doors to vaccinate nearly ten million youngsters against the debilitating illness polio.
Similarly, more than 74 million youngsters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who are not yet five years old will receive anti-polio vaccination drops.
Anti-polio drops will be given to around 2.5 million youngsters in Balochistan who are no more than five years old.
The Ministry of Health said on November 11 that a 31-month-old kid in Karachi had been diagnosed with polio, making it Pakistan’s fifth instance of the disease this year.
The health ministry has verified that a 31-month-old infant from UC Gujro in Gadap Town, Karachi East, tested positive for the polio virus.
The only two nations in the world where polio still poses a threat to children’s health and wellbeing are Pakistan and Afghanistan.
