UMERKOT: Anti-polio drive launched

Published January 13, 2009

UMERKOT, Jan 12: DCO Ghulam Akbar Leghari and EDO health Dr Umer Rind here on Monday inaugurated anti-polio campaign by administering anti-polio drops to the children below five years of age. The campaign will continue till January 14.

Speaking on the occasion, the DCO said that it was their national duty to save children from polio and urged the parents to get anti-polio drops administered to their children.

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