ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/LAHORE/PESHAWAR/QUETTA: A week-long sub-national anti-polio vaccination campaign will start tomorrow in ninety-seven selected districts across the country, ARY News reported.
During the campaign, around 24 million children under the age of five will be administered anti-polio drops.
Balochistan
Coordinator of the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Balochistan, Inam Ul Haq, announced that a week-long anti-polio campaign will begin across the province on Monday, November 2,
The drive will run from November 2 to November 8, during which children aged five and under will be administered polio drops.
Inam Ul Haq stated that over 2.2 million children will receive the vaccination across 31 districts of Balochistan. He further informed that 8,888 mobile and stationary teams have been formed to execute the campaign.
Offering a temporary sigh of relief, no new cases of polio have been reported in the province since November 2024.
Earlier, Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal formally inaugurated the third Sub-National Immunization Days (SNIDs) campaign of 2026 by administering polio drops to children at the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC), Islamabad.
The ceremony brought together NEOC Coordinator Mr. Muhammad Anwar ul Haq, DG FDI Mr Musa Khan, WHO Deputy Representative Ms. Ellen Thom, National Core Team members, development partners including CDC, Rotary, media representatives, parents and children, reflecting a shared commitment to ending polio in Pakistan.
From 2–8 November 2026, more than 200,000 frontline polio workers will work across 97 selected districts to vaccinate nearly 24 million children under five.
Together, with the commitment of frontline workers, partners and communities, we can protect every child and achieve a polio-free Pakistan.
