ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister Imran Khan has appreciated the polio workers, who performed their duties in heavy snow, vaccinating children against the crippling disease in the remote northern areas.

The premier on Wednesday hosted the heroic polio workers at the PM House including Irfan, after a video of him walking through the waist-deep snow on mountainous areas of Chitral went viral on social media.

Prime Minister Imran also tweeted out a tribute for Irfan.

https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1090849562653126656

During the meeting with the workers, the premier also discussed strategies to keep the scourge of polio at bay.

https://twitter.com/PTIKPOfficial/status/1090642188390883329

The fifty-second footage of the polio worker, widely viewed across the globe as the view-counter clocked at around 670 million clicks in just two days, showed the determination of the field teams to make the country free of Polio.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/pakistani-polio-worker-defies-frost-to-administer-polio-drops/

UNICEF, in a tweet, also appreciated the long-distance travel of polio workers.

https://twitter.com/UNICEF/status/1090116087621058568

The polio vaccination in Chitral is part of the countrywide campaign launched last week during which around 39 million children below five-year age would administer anti-polio drops, despite difficult weather conditions at snowfall and hilly areas in peak winter.

The campaign reached Chitral on January 27 in freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall where polio workers in varying areas of Lower and North Chitral went out and administered polio drops to children is scheduled to continue till January 30.