An emergency immunisation campaign against polio disease begins in Khyber, Mohmand, Bajaur, Orakzai and Kurram Agencies today to check the increasing number of polio cases in tribal areas.
During the three day campaign, more than two thousand vaccination teams would administer polio drops to about 0.6 million tribal children.
So far 138 polio cases have been reported in the four provinces and tribal areas during the current year. Polio virus has been confirmed in 102 children belonging to tribal areas. Twenty three polio cases have been reported in Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, eleven in Sindh and one each in Punjab and Balochistan.
Officials said that special security arrangements have been made for the security of anti polio vaccination teams in view of attacks on them in KPK and FATA in the past.
