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Children in 4 Nangarhar districts may miss polio drops

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Local health officials on Monday said insecurity and other problems might prevent polio workers from administering polio drops to thousands of children in four districts of eastern Nangarhar province.

The concern was expressed at the launch of a five-day anti-polio campaign in Nangarhar’s capital Jalalabad.

Dr. Ali Gul Intizar, an official at the provincial public health department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 694,185 children under five years of age would be vaccinated through 4,000 volunteers across Nangarhar during the five . . .

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