Polio teams will admini­ster oral polio vaccin­e drops to childr­en Punjab, Baloch­istan, K-P and FataAmid stringent security, a three-day anti-polio campaign has stared in selected districts of Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Monday, said Radio Pakistan. Polio teams will go door-to-door and administer oral polio vaccine drops to children under the age of five in eight districts of Punjab, 20 districts of Balochistan, 17 districts of K-P and Fata during the immunisation campaign. In Punjab, nearly seven million children will be given anti-polio vaccines while in Balochistan more than 1.7 million children and in K-P and Fata, five million children will be given polio vaccine drops. Trump policy set to hinder war on polio in Pakistan: reportPakistan is one of just three countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria that have endemic polio, a once-common childhood virus that can cause paralysis or death. Militants in Pakistan have previously alleged the immunisation campaigns are a cover for Western spies.

Source: The Express Tribune December 18, 2017 11:03 UTC