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MIRPUR, Oct 16 (APP):In Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the 5-day national anti-polio drive successfully concluded on Thursday.
The cooperation of parents with the mobile polio teams at their doorstep and at the fixed centers remained highly marvelous as they got the polio vaccine drops administered to children under 5 years of age during the campaign across AJK, including this thickly populated district, the local correspondent of APP reported this from Mirpur , quoting State Health Department authorities on Thursday.
According to the details, over 7.42 lakh children under 5 years of age across AJK were targeted to be immunized with the polio vaccine during the campaign.
Only in AJK’s metropolis, Muzaffarabad, the target of 124,249 children up to five years of age was set to administer polio vaccine drops during the nationwide drive, the State Health Department sources told APP here on Friday.
For this purpose over 450 mobile teams were constituted, and the required number of fixed and transit points were set up by the Polio Eradication Committee with the coordination and assistance of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The AJK state health department’s Polio Eradication Committee had made adequate arrangements to execute the polio-eradication campaign in a befitting manner. The integrated campaign started on October 13 and lasted for four days without any break.
It may be added that the state health authorities asserted that there had been no case of polio disease detected in any child in any part of Azad Jammu & Kashmir during the last 25 years.