5-day anti-polio drive commences today

Rawalpindi : A five-day polio drive would commence in three Tehsils of the district including Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation and Cantonments areas from February 18 to 25 as the environmental water samples tested positive for polio virus for last eight months consecutively.

Talking to APP, Incharge-Anti-polio drive District Health Authority, Chaudary Muhammad Hussain said around 2000 polio teams including 1500 mobile teams, 217 fixed points, 90 transit points, 187 Union council medical officers and 400 area incharges would administer polio drops to above 740,000 children less than five years of age in Tehsil Rawalpindi, Taxila, Gujar Khan, Rawalpindi city and Rawalpindi/ Chaklala cantonments boards area.