Vaccination Campaign Against Typhoid Begins in Quetta, Pakistan

  • A 12-day vaccination campaign to control the spread of typhoid was kicked off in the city earlier this month
  •  856,000 children between the ages of nine and 15 years will be vaccinated against typhoid in 39 urban union councils in a vaccination campaign
  • Initially, this vaccine will be administered in the urban union councils of Balochistan. Later, its scope will be expanded to the entire province
  • Quetta District Health Officer Noor Bakhsh Bizenjo has called the vaccine “an extraordinary development”, and said it would allow people to take preventive measures against the disease