QUETTA: The Pakistan Railways (PR) has decided to administer polio vaccine to children twice a day at the Quetta station.

According to officials of the Balochistan Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), a team vaccinated children in four trains that left the station for other provinces in the morning and another team was scheduled to vaccinate the children arriving in Quetta in the evening.

“We will fully cooperate with the EOC to make Balochistan polio free,” PR Divisional Superintendent Fiaz Bugti said on Tuesday.

EOC Coordinator Dr Syed Saifur Rehman said the move would help anti-polio teams cover travelling children.

Published in Dawn, June 17th, 2015

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