Over 75,000 children to be administered polio drops

In a meeting held here on Tuesday with Chitral DCO Mutasim Billah Shah in the chair, recommended steps to make the upcoming polio campaign successful by administering vaccine to 75,682 children in the district.
The health department officials told the meeting that 231 mobile teams had been constituted to cover the whole district while transit centers would be established at the city airport and two border areas of Ashrait and Shandur. The campaign will commence from October 13 and continue for three days.
The Chitral DCO emphasised the need of reaching maximum number of people to make them realise the importance of the national immunisation days to ensure their active participation. He assured all-out support from the district government to make the campaign a success.