NOWSHERA: Walk held

Published September 3, 2003

NOWSHERA, Sept 2: The health department, WHO and Unicef organized an anti-polio walk at Pabbi on Monday.

Students, health department officials and representatives of the local governments, the WHO and Unicef participated in the walk whichs started from the town hall and ended at the Satellite Complex Hospital.

Speaking at a function after the walk, doctors said more than 250,000 children below five years of age, including Afghan refugees, would be administered polio vaccine in the district.

They said 96 supervisors would oversee 638 teams formed to carry out the immunization  programme.

A doctor from Sri Lanka called upon the public to supplement the efforts of the health department in eradicating the disease.

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