Radio Tnn By Anwar Shah Orakzai

Six-day anti polio drive begins in selected tribal areas

PESHAWAR, 28 December: A special six-day anti polio drive got underway in five tribal districts and FR Kohat on Monday, health officials in the Fata secretariat said.

According to the officials, more than 590,000 children under the age of five years would be administered anti polio drops during the six-day drive in Khyber, Mohmand, Bajaur, Orakzai and Kurram Agencies and FR Kohat.

The officials informed that special anti-polio vaccines would be injected to children upto 23 months of age during the campaign.

Also, a three-day anti-polio drive is launched in Swabi district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials of the health department said. The drive was postponed in the district due to security reasons.