Acting Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced on Tuesday that a national campaign to vaccinate children against polio for free across the country will run from 27 to 30 March.

Hossam Abdel Ghaffar — the Official Spokesperson for the ministry — stated that the campaign aims to vaccinate all children — Egyptian and foreign — from one day to five years old living in the country.

The campaign will include 45,000 medical teams comprising 90,000 members trained at the highest level in addition to supervisory teams at all levels in the ministry, health directorates, departments, and medical districts.