Four-day anti-polio campaign to start in Larkana from Monday

LARKANA: A four-day anti-polio campaign will start from Monday to administer the polio vaccine drops to over 306,850 children in Sindh Larkana district.

According to details, more than 306850 children up to five years of age would be administered anti-polio drops during the four-day campaign starting from March 16, 2020.

District Health Officer (DHO) Larkana Dr. Syed Amjad Shah said about 815 mobile teams had been formed which would visit all the areas of the district to administer the polio vaccine to the children.

Dr. Syed Amjad Shah said polio teams would manage to cover all children including at Railway Station, Bus stops and various markets of the district during the four-day anti-polio campaign.

He urged the parents to be cooperative with the mobile polio teams to make the national anti-polio drive success. DHO also urged the religious scholars, elected representatives, NGOs and local community to make this drive successful by involving their all-possible steps so that the children of the whole district could be immunized against this crippling disease.

Earlier, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday reported two more new cases of polio, jumping the total number of polio cases that emerged in 2020 across the country to 31.

Health authorities said a three-old-girl, Fareeha who belongs to Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, contracted poliovirus. While the other has been detected in a three-year-old girl, a resident of Morro in  Naushahro Feroze Sindh.