KARACHI, Jan 9: The Expanded Programme of Immunization (EPI-Sindh) will be launching the Sub National Immunization Days ( SNIDs) in the Karachi, Hyderabad and Jacobabad districts and parts of Dadu, Thatta, Badin, Sanghar, Shikarpur, Larkana and Ghotki from Jan 22 to 24.

Dr Shamsunisa Ansari, Director EPI-Sindh, talking to APP here on Wednesday, said some 4.5 million children below the age of five would be vaccinated against polio during the campaign.

The SNIDs would be followed by the NIDs at all Pakistan level in the months of February and March, she said mentioning that the country had performed very well since Jan 2001 and acquired a reduction rate in the polio incidence by 76%.

To a query she said some 28 cases were detected in Sindh during the year 2001, adding that the most significant development was the fact that these cases were localised and in Karachi these were restricted to refugee camps in Sohrab Goth.—APP