Three-day anti-polio drive to start in Punjab from Monday

LAHORE – A three-day anti-polio vaccination campaign will start in Punjab on Monday.

Over 18 million children below the age of five years would be administered polio drops.

About 44,654 teams have been constituted in the province, including 37,845 mobile teams, 4439 fixed teams and 2370 transit teams. Pakistan has made great progress towards polio eradication in the last year, bringing down the toll from 306 in 2014 to only 54 in 2015.-Online

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