Three-day anti-polio drive kicks-off in different parts of country
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A three-day anti-polio drive is in progress in different parts of the country Monday.
More than 6.6 million children up to five years of age will be administered anti-polio vaccine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.
According to a spokesman of the Punjab Health Department the campaign has kicked off in Multan, Khanewal, Faisalabad, Hafizabad, and Rawalpindi districts.
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Over two million children will be administered anti-polio vaccine in thirty districts of Balochistan.
In Muzaffarabad, more than 120,000 children will be vaccinated against the disease.
In Gilgit-Baltistan, over 236,000 children will be administered anti-polio vaccine drops.
Teams of health workers will also available at railway stations, bus stands and public places to ensure that every child is vaccinated.
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