In this file photo, a health worker gives polio vaccines to children in the suburbs of Lahore. — AP/File
LAHORE: Frustrated by the performance of Pakistan’s Polio Programme, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) has declared that the number of missed children in 2021 vaccination rounds all over the country is still higher than it was in 2018 and 2019.
The IMB provides an independent assessment of the progress being made by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in the detection and interruption of polio transmission globally.
In its recent report on Pakistan’s Polio Programme, the global body has marked Punjab as a ‘poor performer’ compared to other provinces.