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Anti-polio campaign begins in KP on Monday
January 20, 2019

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A three-day anti-polio campaign begins in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday.

A spokesman of the Provincial Health Department told our Peshawar correspondent that about six point seven million children upto five years of age will be administered anti-polio vaccine during the campaign. 

More than thirty-one thousand teams have been constituted for the purpose which will visit door-to-door to administer anti-polio drops to children.

The spokesman added more than thirty thousand personnel of law enforcing agencies have been deputed for security of polio teams.