Islamabad: Pakistan government and various international health organisations have joined hands to eradicate polio from the country and a meeting will be held in Islamabad on December 14 to devise a new plan for that matter.
Balochistan Additional Secretary Health Noor-ul-Haq Baloch told media that the representatives of Pakistan Polio Programme, World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and prime minister’s polio cell will join the meeting.
A new plan will be developed for a six-month period from January to June 2013 for FATA, Quetta and Karachi block, he said.
He added that Balochistan government was considering and making draft for a law to make polio vaccination compulsory.
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