Five-day polio campaign to start in all Punjab districts from 16th.

LAHORE -- A five-day anti-polio camApaign will begin in all disAtricts of Punjab from January 16. The health authorities have set a target of vacciAnating more than 22 million children up to the age of five years besides deploying 84,500 mobile teams and two lakh polio workers for the drive which will continue till January 20. Provincial Health Minister Dr Akhtar Malik and PunAjab Chief Secretary Abdullah Khan Sumbal presided over a meeting of the Provincial Taskforce on Polio EradicaAtion at the Civil Secretariat on Tuesday.

Secretary Primary Health Dr Irshad Ahmed, represenAtatives of international orgaAnizations working for polio eradication and relevant ofAficers attended the meeting while all the divisional comAmissioners and deputy commissionAers participated through video link. Dr Akhtar Malik directed the...