KARACHI, Dec 6: Caretaker Sindh Health Minister Fauzia Lari has said that effective campaigns against measles and polio should be organised to save the next generation.

She was presiding over a meeting to review the recently concluded anti-measles drive on Thursday.

Project Director Dr Salma Kausar told the meeting that 2.5 million cases of measles were detected in Pakistan every year and this diseases claimed lives of some 21,000 children each year.

The target of anti-measles drive was to vaccinate 14 million children aged between 9 and 13. In Dadu, 0.59 million children were administered vaccines in a pilot project in March 2007.—PPI