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LARKANA, Jan 07 (APP): A six-day National polio campaign will start from January 08 to January 14, 2024, in the Larkana district in which more than 306,950 children of the district up the five years of age will be vaccinated with Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV).
All-out arrangements have been finalized for the National Immunization Campaign of Polio to save the children from the crippling disease of Polio.
This was disclosed by the District Health Officer (DHO) Larkana Dr. Syed Attar Hussain Shah here on Sunday evening.
He said the children up to five years of age would be administered Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) during the seven-day campaign.
He said 890 mobile teams have been constituted which would visit all the areas including the remote, far-flung areas and flood/rain-affected areas of the district to accomplish the task.
He further said that three (5) Roaming polio teams have also been constituted in Larkana city to cover children during the day’s campaign.
DHO Larkana said that thirty 90 transit polio teams have also been constituted in the district in this regard and they would be available at Railway Stations, Bus stops and various markets of the district during the 07-day anti-polio campaign.
He exhorted the parents to be cooperative with the visiting mobile polio teams to make the national anti-polio campaign a complete success.
He also urged the religious scholars, elected representatives, NGOs and local community to make this campaign successful by involving their all-possible efforts so that the children of the whole district could be immunized against this crippling disease.