polio in Pakistan

News Desk  Rawalpindi: The anti-polio drive commenced in Rawalpindi on Monday with the inauguration led by Commissioner Aamir Khattak and Deputy Commissioner Dr Hasan Waqar Cheema, who administered immunizations to children under the age…

News Desk Faisalabad: A new week-long phase of anti-polio initiatives is scheduled to commence in select areas of Punjab and Sindh starting from February 26, continuing through March 3rd. It is reported that hundreds of thousands of…

News Desk Islamabad: Deputy Commissioner Islamabad, Irfan Nawaz Memon, on Thursday urged parents to cooperate with the polio vaccination teams and ensure that their children receive the necessary two doses of polio drops. Addressing a…

News Desk Peshawar: A five-day special anti-polio campaign is going to start on October 30 in three districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in which more than 12,43000 children are targeted to be vaccinated. Preparations in this connection…

News Desk Islamabad: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar directed the concerned authorities to engage religious scholars, teachers, parents and all stakeholders to play a key role in the complete eradication of the polio virus…

APP Multan: Strict legal action will be taken against parents who refuse to administer polio drops to their kids. Therefore, get your children administered polio drops to protect them from lifelong disabilities, asserted Multan Division…

APP Bahawalpur: The five-day anti-polio campaign is starting on October 2 in the Bahawalpur district, where more than 0.8 million children up to five years old will be vaccinated against polio. Bahawalpur Deputy Commissioner (DC)…

APP Faisalabad: As many as 1.53677 million children up to the age of five years would be administered polio drops during the campaign starting from October 2 to October 8, informed Deputy Commissioner Abdullah Nayyar Sheikh. The…

News Desk Islamabad: Two sewage samples from Peshawar and Pishin districts have tested positive for wild poliovirus (WPV1). According to the notification issued by Pakistan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health, WPV1…

News Desk Lahore: The polio virus has been confirmed in environmental samples collected from the Multan Road area Lahore which is the fourth case of wild poliovirus in Lahore this year, according to health officials. Out of the 4…