The campaign primarily aimed to vaccinate 36,360,037 children, but only 35,712,922 children were successfully vaccinated which indicates that 98 percent of the vaccination target was achieved, the sources said.
They added 739,201 children were not available for vaccination during the polio campaign in Pakistan while 71,330 parents refused to allow their children to receive the vaccine.
The sources said that in total, the sub-national campaign left 302,006 children unvaccinated.
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However, the campaign saw success in Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad, where 100 percent of children received the polio vaccine.
In Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan, vaccination rates reached 99 percent, while Azad Kashmir managed to vaccinate 98 percent of its children. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recorded the lowest vaccination rate at 95 percent.
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According to province-wise breakup quoted by sources, 178,406 children in Punjab, 94,229 in Sindh, 342,513 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 60,588 and 28,705 in Baluchistan children under the age of 5 years remained unvaccinated during the anti-polio campaign.
Additionally, during the campaign in Azad Kashmir, 4,103 children were also unvaccinated.
It is keep in view that the 2024 final sub-national polio campaign was conducted in two phases: the first phase took place from December 16 to 22, while the second phase ran from December 30 to January 5.
The campaign was executed in a total of 143 districts and 7,396 union councils.
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