Launch of a three-day anti-polio campaign
In reaction to the discovery of the polio virus in environmental samples, the Punjab Emergency Operations Centre has declared a special polio vaccination campaign that will begin on Monday in all 25 union councils in Rawalpindi.
Over 124,000 children under the age of five will be the target of the three-day polio vaccination campaign, according to Dr Ehsan Ghani, who took over as CEO of the Rawalpindi District Health Authority.
People from polio-affected areas, such as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan, frequently migrate to the affected union councils, which are entirely or partially located in Rawalpindi City and Taxila tehsils.
Dr. Ghani emphasised in a statement released on Sunday that the campaign’s goal is to guarantee that every child gets the polio vaccine in order to strengthen their immunity to the illness.
Punjab has set up 31 permanent environmental monitoring sites in 19 districts to improve polio surveillance.
