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Children get anti-polio drops in police checkpoints

HEALTH • 11:30 AM Tue Jan 21, 2020
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John M. Unson
 Most parents had their children vaccinated without questions. (John Unson)

COTABATO CITY --- For the second day now since Monday, health workers and police teams continued administering anti-polio vaccines to children onboard vehicles at checkpoints in the city.

A big number of children were given oral anti-polio vaccines Monday in a joint vaccination drive by the Regional Police Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, the Department of Health-12 and the City Health Office in keeping with the national government’s anti-polio campaign.

 

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