A five-day anti-polio campaign in high-risk areas of the city and cantonment areas will start from May 5 to administer polio drops to more than 200,000 children.
Under the drive, the polio teams would visit 28 union councils of Rawalpindi city and cantt, which have been declared high-risk areas, Executive District Officer (EDO- Health) Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal told APP here Sunday.
In the recently concluded regular campaign, he said, 7,11,744 children upto five years age were administered polio drops to prevent the younger generation from the crippling disease.
He said staff deployed for the campaign has been issued special instructions and informed that no negligence in this regard would be tolerated.
The EDO advised parents to come forward and play their role in ensuring vaccination of their children to eliminate the disease from society.