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KARACHI, June 2: Chief Minister Ali Mohammad Mahar has described polio as a menacing disease which disables infants and children. So, the health department, NGOs and parents are duty bound to play their due role in making the special anti-polio vaccination campaign a success, he said.
The three-day campaign is being launched from Tuesday (June 3).
The CM impressed upon doctors and health department staff to ensure provision of vaccination facility at the doorsteps of the beneficiaries during the drive.
CAMP: Adviser to the CM on Health Noman Saigal on Monday administered polio drops to a few children at a camp set up at Dow Medical College in connection with the Tuesday’s launching of anti-polio campaign throughout Sindh.
Thousands of teams comprising health department staff and volunteers are set to start the campaign.
The ceremony at the DMC camp was attended by the Principal of the college, Illahi Bukhsh Soomro, Project Director, Extended Programme for Immunization (EPI) Sindh, Shams-un-Nisa Ansari, Provincial Health Secretary, Ashiq Hussain Memon, Medical Superintendent, Civil Hospital Karachi Prof Naushad Sheikh and others.
DIRECTIVES: Nazims of Gulberg and Gulshan-i-Iqbal towns have issued special directives to the concerned departments and elected representatives to ensure that every children up to the age of five years was administered polio drops.
At a meeting with Town Health Officer, Gulberg Town, Dr Salma Kausar, the Town Nazim, Farooq Naimatullah, was informed that the residents of densely congested areas and posh localities of the town were reluctant to get their children vaccinated.
She lauded the support extended by elected representatives to the vaccination teams in their door-to-door campaign.
The Nazim of Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town, Abdul Wahab, administered polio drops to some children at a dispensary in UC Shanti Nagar on Monday in connection with the campaign. He was accompanied by the UC Nazim, Ghulam Akber.
During a briefing by the town health officer and the WHO representatives, it was mentioned that about 146,000 children would be administered anti-polio drops during the campaign.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has appealed to doctors around the country to help government fight out polio. — PPI/APP
