5-day anti-polio drive concludes successfully in AJK.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- In Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the 5-day national anti-polio drive successively concluded on Friday.

More than 0.7 million children of under 5 years of age were immunized during the campaign, started on January 11, official sources said. In Muzaffarabad, a total of 110137 children up to five years of were administered anti-Polio vaccine and Vitamin 'A' drops/ during the drive without any pause.

A total of 438 mobile teams of para medical staff were constituted to visit door-to-door to administer the anti-polio vaccine and vitamin 'A' drop during the campaign in the capital district - where 63 fixed centers were also set up by the State Polio Eradication Committee of the AJK State Health Services Department.

The state health department's Polio Eradication Committee made adequate arrangement to executive the polio-eradication campaign in a befitting manner.

The fixed centers were set up at the hospitals, basic health units, rural health centers as well as various other spots to vaccinate the children with the anti-polio drops...