Five-day drive against polio kicks off in Punjab.

LAHORE: The Punjab health department launched a five-day anti-polio campaign in all the 36 districts of the province on Monday during which 16.88 million children under five years of age would be administered polio vaccine.

The authorities have also formed more than 65,000 mobile teams for this purpose. The drive will be concluded on September 24. Punjab Chief Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal presided over a meeting to review the campaign at the Civil Secretariat. The chief secretary directed the deputy commissioners to make the anti-polio campaign a success and enlist the help of mosques prayer leaders and elders of the area to raise awareness among people.

The chief secretary said that it was necessary to work with national spirit to eradicate polio. He added that the situation regarding polio cases was better than last year, but concerted efforts for the complete eradication of this deadly...