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Week-long anti-polio campaign with special focus on flood-hit areas begins today
October 24, 2022

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A nationwide anti-polio campaign of varied duration with a special focus on flood-affected areas begins on Monday.

A week-long anti-polio campaign is being carried out in 14 districts of Punjab including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Mianwali, Khushab, Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Layya, Multan, Muzaffaragarh, Rahim Yar Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur.

In Sindh, around 6.5 million children under five years of age will be given oral polio vaccine drops during the drive.

In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a three-day anti-polio campaign will commence in 28 districts.

In Balochistan, 1.7 million children up to the age of five years will be administered anti polio drops during the campaign, .