5-day anti-polio drive concludes  in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) District Health Authority Dr. Faiza Kanwal Saturday said the anti-polio campaign, which started in across the district on June 7, had concluded successfully. The CEO told APP that over 712,000 children below five years of age, were administered anti-polio drops during the campaign launched in all tehsils and towns of the district. She said that 98 percent target of the drive had been achieved out of the set target to cover 718,000 children. Dr. Faiza informed that 2 percent of children were missed the immunization being out of the city. She told that 2964 polio teams, 240 health centers,307 fixed centres, allied hospitals, and tehsil headquarter hospitals participated in the drive to complete the task of immunization.

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