GLOBAL STRATEGY

■ Commitment and support from top leadership: PM Imran Khan ■ is monitoring the programme and providing guidance through the national task force for polio eradication and meetings with the authorities of high-risk districts for polio.

■ Empowered polio emergency operations centres: National, provincial and district level health officials are offered full authority and resources to design polio operations required to achieve eradication while the partner agencies together with the government are providing critical technical and operational support.

■ Focus on field operations: Immunisation campaigns have been intensified to reach the missing children and the last mile of polio eradication. In 2021, Pakistan conducted three successful nationallevel campaigns, each reaching more than 40 million children with life-saving vaccines despite the Covid-19 pandemic.