KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah while kicking off the polio drive on Friday said that the province had not reported a single case of the crippling disease since July 2020 and traces of poliovirus were not found in sewage across the province since July 2021.
The chief minister and Health Minister Azra Fazl Pechuhu administered polio drops to the children to launch the immunization drive in Sindh. The campaign will continue till March 06 and 10 million children will be administered polio drops in 30 districts of the province. Seventy thousand polio workers are participating in the drive.
While sharing the achievement of the previous drives, Murad Ali Shah said that no case of the crippling disease has been reported since July 2020 while traces of poliovirus were not found in sewage across the province since July 2021. The only case reported in Pakistan was from Baluchistan in 2021, he added.
Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan on Wednesday announced that more than 4.3 million children will be administered anti-polio drops during the first immunization campaign of 2022.
Sharing details of the drive, he said that the campaign has been launched from six southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. “However, the formal launch of the anti-polio drive will be made from February 28,” he said.
