KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday launched an anti-polio drive at the Janat Gul Hospital in Gadap Town area of Karachi.
The chief minister posted about the inauguration in a tweet too that we pledged to keep our children safe.
Murad Ali Shah wrote, “UC4 Gadap, with a preponderance of migrant Afghan & Pashtoon settlements, has had most #PolioCases in Sindh. I begin a polio eradication campaign from JannatGul Hospital in UC4 Gadap, today.”
UC4 Gadap, with a preponderance of migrant Afghan & Pashtoon settlements, has had most #PolioCases in Sindh. I begin polio eradication campaign from JannatGul Hospital in UC4 Gadap, today.We pledge to keep our children healthy.We pledge to keep our children safe. @MuradAliShahPPP pic.twitter.com/5YWO3lFB4L
— CMHouseSindh (@SindhCMHouse) December 16, 2019
He added, “We pledge to keep our children healthy. We pledge to keep our children safe.”
During the campaign, more than two point three million children in Karachi and nine million children in other parts of the province, under the age of five years, would be administered polio vaccine.
An anti-polio drive in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has kicked off today in a bid to curb rising cases across the country.
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Poliovirus, which was at the brink of eradication in Pakistan, has surfaced again, with at least 100 cases that exclude vaccine-derived cases being reported across the country. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa leads the tally with over 50 cases.
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