Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 08 Jan 2025, 05:58 am Print
Pakistan 111,118 children remain unvaccinated in KP. Photo Courtesy: Unsplash
Pakistan's struggle against vaccinating children continued with 111,118 children remained unvaccinated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region remind unvaccinated in December, media reports said.
According to data compiled by officials of Emergency Operation Centre (Polio) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, during the five-day campaign carried out from mid-December 2024 vaccinators covered 6.16 million of the total target of 6.42 million under-five children, which is 96 per cent, Dawn News reported.
Of the overall unvaccinated children, 90,751 were missed because they were not present when health workers knocked at the doors of their houses while 20,367 didn’t get the drops due to reluctance of their parents, the newspaper reported.
During the door-to-door campaigning conducted from Oct 28 to Nov 3, vaccinators missed 1.5pc of the targeted children in the province.
The refusal of parents and unavailability of children during the campaign remained the main cause for non vaccination.
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