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Pakistan Looks To India For Guidance On Polio Eradication Efforts
"Impressed with India's successful effort in polio eradication," a nine-member Pakistani delegation on Thursday met India's health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and senior officials of the Ministry to discuss the country's polio eradication program, the Press Trust of India/Business Standard reports, noting that India achieved a polio-free status as of January (5/31). "'The focus of our visit here was for us to learn firsthand from the government officials and partners exactly what it took for India to become polio free,' leader of the Pakistan delegation, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, said," the PTI/Times of India writes (5/31).
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