ISLAMABAD, March 5: A three-day polio immunization campaign kicked off in Islamabad on Tuesday to administer polio drops to children below five years of age.

The director-general, health, Rear Admiral Mohammad Aslam, inaugurated the drive by administering polio drops to children at the Capital Development Authority health directorate.

Speaking on the occasion, he lauded the services of the directorate during the past immunization campaigns. He said Islamabad had been declared as a model city.

The CDA health director, Dr Saeed Ahmed, informed that Islamabad had been divided into seven zones and 26 sectors for the drive, besides 250 mobile teams were set up, who went door-to-door in both urban and rural area of the capital to administer polio drops.

He said some 50 vaccination centres had also been established in the Capital which would remain functional even after the end of the drive.—Reporter