Seven-day national polio vaccine drive begins in five districts of Larkana region.

LARKANA: A seven-day polio immunization drive started on Monday throughout Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore districts of Larkana division.

The teams visit door-to-door in remote and far-flung areas of the five districts to administer Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to the 1,178,980 children up to the age of five years.

The district health departments Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore districts have deputed more than 3,390 mobile and fixed teams which will visit every house in the five districts of the Larkana region and administered Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to the children up to five years age.

Mobile Anti-polio teams would visit Schools, bus stands and railway stations and also visit door-to-door to administer anti-polio drops to the children in remote areas, and rural and urban areas of five districts to accomplish the task.

The officials of the health department have appealed to the people of Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore districts that they should come forward...