Special eight-day polio debate to start in 3 high-risk districts of K-P
Several kinship councils of Hangu, DI Khan and Lakki Marwat will be covered. PHOTO: AFP
PESHAWAR: A special eight-day-long polio vaccination debate will start in 3 high-risk districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Thursday with a aim to immunise 0.6 million children opposite a crippling virus.
The preference to lift out a special vaccination debate was taken during a assembly chaired by K-P Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) Coordinator Akbar Khan.
It was motionless that children underneath a age of 5 will be given polio drops in 20 kinship councils (UC) of Hangu district, 47 of DI Khan and 33 UCs of Lakki Marwat.
“The K-P supervision is entirely committed to achieving a ultimate idea of expelling polio-virus totally from a province,” pronounced Akbar, according to a matter released by EOC.
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Akbar also lauded polio workers for their tough work in ensuring that children are vaccinated. He combined that profitable team-work from partner organisations, relatives and media all contributed to a swell in achieving a idea of polio elimination.
According to a statement, around 0.6 million children will be vaccinated – both with verbal polio vaccine (OPV) and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), that is injected.
Trained health workman teams have been deployed opposite a 3 districts to safeguard coverage and despotic confidence measures have been taken, it added.
This expostulate is in further to a inhabitant three-day immunisation expostulate that resolved final week.
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