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Al Jazeera
Health
Abid Hussain

Pakistan launches year’s first nationwide anti-polio campaign

PM Shehbaz Sharif administered polio drops to children as he formally inaugurated the campaign on Sunday [Handout via Al Jazeera]

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan has launched its first nationwide anti-polio campaign for the year, aiming to immunise more than 44 million children under the age of five to protect them from the viral disease.

The three-day campaign started on Monday in more than 150 districts of the country, which along with Afghanistan are the only two countries where the debilitating neurodegenerative disease is still endemic.

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