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Pakistan to Launch Nationwide Polio Drive Targeting 45.4 Million Children

The drive concentrates resources on high‑risk areas to cut ongoing transmission after 27 cases reported this year.

Overview

  • NEOC scheduled the campaign for October 13–19 with more than 400,000 door‑to‑door vaccinators and Vitamin A supplementation, with South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa set for October 20–23.
  • Sindh plans to reach 10.6 million children with over 80,000 workers, tightening monitoring, refusal follow‑ups, and cold‑chain management.
  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will target over 7.3 million children using 35,248 vaccinators and about 50,000 security personnel, rolling out in two phases across provincial divisions.
  • Balochistan aims to vaccinate more than 2.6 million children through 11,144 teams, while Punjab’s round begins October 13 to cover 23.3 million children, with Lahore running a longer seven‑day effort.
  • Lahore announced a fractional inactivated polio vaccine campaign for November 3–12 across 122 high‑risk union councils, and Telangana, India, launched a parallel Pulse Polio drive on October 12 with 2,843 Hyderabad booths targeting about 517,000 children.