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6.4 Million Children Immunised Against Polio

Immunisation of children, according to health experts, prevents them from becoming ill with unpleasant and serious infectious diseases which have a risk of complications and long-term side effects.

6.4 Million Children Immunised Against Polio

About 6.4 million children under five years in Ghana have been immunised against polio during the just-ended immunisation exercise.

• Vaccination campaign to continue on Sunday to achieve desired results • Officials say response from parents in Karachi, Hyde...

Vaccination campaign to continue on Sunday; officials say response from parents in Karachi, Hyderabad very positive.

Pakistan is one of just two countries where the polio virus remains endemic. Challenges remain in identifying and vaccinating all children, but data management software is providing a way forward.

For children in fragile and conflict-prone settings who have been out of reach of the government’s immunisation programmes, there is hope.

To help build the human resource capacity of the Expanded Programme on Immunization and national health data centre

The drive will be carried out in five districts of Punjab