KARACHI: Around 250,000 children aged less than five years would be inoculated with polio boosters by female community volunteers in the city’s eight high-risk union councils from Monday (today).

The campaign will continue for the coming full week, officials said on Sunday.

It will be the first of a series of week-long anti-polio campaigns, which will be carried out after a fortnightly gap as decided at a meeting held at the office of Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui.

The meeting was attended by the administrative, police and health officials of the city and representative of the World Health Organisation and Unicef.

The officials said 100 female community volunteers would spearhead the polio campaign instead of mobile polio teams as a general practice.

The high-risk union councils are: Muzaffarabad, Muslimabad, Gujro, Songal, Manghopir, Ittehad Town, Chishti Nagar and Islamia Colony.

Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2015

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