{"id":22265,"date":"2024-01-07T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22265"},"modified":"2024-01-07T19:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T14:09:49","slug":"nationwide-anti-polio-drive-to-start-from-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/nationwide-anti-polio-drive-to-start-from-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide anti-polio drive to start from tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Parents are urged to contact the helpline 1166 if a polio team does not visit their homes during the campaign.<\/h4>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: In a crucial effort to protect children under the age of five from the debilitating effects of polio, Pakistan is set to kick off a nationwide anti-polio campaign starting tomorrow. The initiative will see health department polio teams canvassing all 159 districts of the country, going door-to-door to administer vaccine drops.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long campaign in Punjab aims to reach over 23 million children, with a particular focus on the cities of Lahore, Faisalabad, and Multan, identified as the most sensitive areas. Similarly, Sindh plans to administer anti-polio vaccine drops to nearly 10.03 million children during its week-long campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa\">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<\/a>, over 7.4 million children will be the focus of a five-day anti-polio drive. Balochistan, on the other hand, targets over 2.5 million children in its week-long campaign. In Gilgit-Baltistan, a five-day effort will see over 250,000 children receiving vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-cautiously-celebrates-polio-free-year.html\">Punjab cautiously celebrates Polio-Free year<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parents are urged to contact the helpline 1166 if a polio team does not visit their homes during the campaign. Last year, Islamabad reported six polio cases, underscoring the importance of sustained efforts against the disease.<\/p>\n<p>As Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only two countries where polio remains endemic, this nationwide campaign serves as a critical step in the ongoing battle to eradicate the virus. The coordinated efforts and commitment to reaching every child underscore the determination to make significant strides in the fight against.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/pakistan-reports-first-polio-case-of-2023.html\">Pakistan reports first polio case of 2023<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are urged to contact the helpline 1166 if a polio team does not visit their homes during the campaign. ISLAMABAD: In a crucial effort to protect children under the age of five from the debilitating effects of polio, Pakistan is set to kick off a nationwide anti-polio campaign starting tomorrow. The initiative will see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[574,580,117],"class_list":["post-22265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-anti-polio-drive","tag-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","tag-kp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}