UPPER DIR, April 27: District coordination officer Riaz Khan Mehsud has terminated three Levies personnel from service for remaining absent from duty during the polio vaccination campaign and ordered issuing show-cause notices to 30 health department officials and teachers for dereliction of duty.

The three Levies personnel did not turn up for duty to the assigned points on which Mehsud ordered their immediate sacking. In addition, show-cause notices have been issued to a doctor, 17 lady health workers, one lady health visitor, five medical technicians, four area in-charges of polio in health department and three teachers.

All the officials were found absent from duty during the three-day polio campaign that ended on April 25. Now, the campaign would be carried out for two more days to ensure that all children were vaccinated.

About 700 Levies personnel took part in the anti-polio campaign for the first time in Upper Dir. “We can’t allow negligence on part of officials during anti-polio campaign,” the DCO said. — Correspondent