Tuesday March 28, 2017
Pul-e-Alam City (BNA) First spring round of anti-polio vaccination campaign with dropping of two drops of vaccine has started in eastern Logar province yesterday.
Noor Abas Qassemi deputy of public health department in Logar told BNA reporter, in this round to give immunity doze to 121,093 children under the age of five and vitamin A to be distributed for 106,562 under five-year-old children throughout the province.
Anti-polio vaccination will be implemented by 706 volunteers and health workers in the province, Qassemi added.
Mohammad Halim Fedayee governor of Logar asked tribal elders, media, civil society activists and all residents of the province to cooperate with health employees regarding implementation of anti-polio vaccination.
Since eight years no any polio cases registered in Logar province.
