Pakistan begins 2nd anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year to protect millions of children

Islamabad – Officials say Pakistan launched a one -nationwide nationwide vaccine on Monday to protect 45 million children from polio.

According to the World Health Organization, Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are the only two countries where potentially deadly, paralyzed viruses have not been stopped,

From January, Pakistan has reported only six polio cases. Last year, the South Asian country has grown in the polio case, which jumps to 744, though it has reported only a polio case in 2021.

Pakistani Health Minister Mostafa Kamal has urged parents to assist with treatment workers, who go home to vaccinates children.

Health workers often attack militants who falsely claim that an attempt to vaccinate is part of the Western plot to steril Muslim children.

From the nineties, more than 200 polio workers and police attacks for their protection have been killed.