Five-day polio campain starts in six district of South Punjab.

MULTAN -- A five-day anti-polio campaign has been started in six districts of South Punjab to administer anti-polio drops to over 4.5 million children of under-five years of age here on Monday.

The six district were included Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Layyah and Rajanpur.

A total of 21,467 workers were participating in the campaign to achieve the target while 17,700 teams have been formed to administer polio vaccine drops to children through door to door visits. The teams including 16207 mobile teams, 380 fixed teams and 613 transit teams have been formed while 593 UCMOs and 7174 area incharges have been assigned to supervise the campaign.

Additional Chief Secretary South Punjab Capt (retd) Saqib Zafar has directed the...