MITHI, Jan 19: District Nazim Arbab Attaullah has urged the union council Nazims, councillors, social workers and representatives of NGOs to extend their cooperation with polio teams in their respective areas during the anti-polio campaign from Jan 20 to 22.

Speaking at a meeting in connection with the polio campaign, the Nazim said though the district was polio-free since 1998 but extraordinary efforts were needed to locate the nomadic families and their children to administer polio drops to them.

The Nazim lauded the role of officials of various departments and the NGOs who had never hesitated to take active part in the polio campaign. Highlighting the importance and benefits of expanded programme on immunization EDO health Dr Nawaz Ali Kalar apprised the participants of the meeting that 50 fixed centres and 533 mobile teams had been formed to administer polio drops to 171,793 children in the district.

As Tharparkar district spreads over 20,000 square kilometres and lacks communication facilities, the members of polio teams should not spare efforts to arrive in every locality to administer the polio drops to children, the EDO stressed.