KARACHI, Dec 11: Polio is at the final stage of its eradication in Pakistan while there have been only three per cent cases recorded in Karachi.

This was stated by Dr Midhat of UNICEF at a meeting, held in connection with the anti-polio drive, at the Town Municipal Administration, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, here on Wednesday. The meeting was presided over by the coordinator of the campaign, Sabir Ahmed, who is the Naib Nazim of UC-3. The meeting reviewed arrangements for the next round of the drive.

Dr Midhat appealed to the members of all union councils to extend their fullest cooperation to the teams engaged in administrating polio drops to the children up to the age of five years.

She said that the teams would conduct door-to-door visits so that no child was left out in the campaign.

She pointed out that only two drops of vaccine could help eradicate polio completely.

Speaking on the occasion, Sabir Ahmed assured his UC’s full cooperation to make the campaign a success.—APP