KABUL - An extended sub-national immunisation campaign for polio eradication began today (Monday), the Ministry of Public Health announced.
The five-day campaign targets over 8.5 million children under five years of age in 324 districts across the country, the ministry said in a statement.
“We are concerned that following the long pause in polio vaccination in parts of the country, more children have become vulnerable to poliovirus,” the minister of public health said.
Dr Ferozuddin Feroz underlined the importance of vaccinating the children who could not be reached in the previous campaign. He called on parents to get their children vaccinated at campaign sites at local health facilities.
The polio campaign will run from October 14 to October 18. From 2019 to date, at least 16 children have been paralysed by the poliovirus.

Fifteen of them are from the southern region (8 from Uruzgan, 5 from Helmand and 2 from Kandahar). One case was reported from Kunar. (Pajhwok)