PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Thousands of Afghan refugee children are being administered polio drops as the year’s campaign against the deadly disease got under way in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Monday.
More than 5,500 Afghans are among the 2.4 million children below the age of five years who are to be given polio drops. Official said tight security arrangements had been put in place for the province-wide drive.
Dr. Syed Saifur Rehman, coordinator of the Emergency Operation Cell (EOC), told reporters in Quetta . . .
