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HYDERABAD, July 22: The Sindh Health Organization in cooperation with the health department on Monday staged a walk from the Lady Dufferin Hospital to the Hyderabad Press Club to create awareness among the people against polio.
Addressing the participants of the walk before the press club, the EDO (health) Hyderabad, Dr Qadir Bux Memon appealed to the people to cooperate with the health teams, which will visit their homes during the three-day anti-polio campaign from July 23 to 25.
He said that children upto five years of age would be administered polio drops.
The WHO representative, Dr Domicine, and the federal surveillance officer, WHO (Islamabad), Dr Ubaid-us-Salam, UNICEF representative, Dr Ahmed Haider, Dr Rasheed Akhtar Memon, Dr Bashir Solangi, Tanveer Ahmed Shaikh, Liaquat Panhwar, and others also addressed the gathering.
CAMPS: The Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, has set up camps in Hyderabad, Latifabad, and Qasimabad to administer polio drops to children.
The foundation, in a statement, said that the mobile teams of the foundation would also administer polio drops door-to-door.
Meanwhile, the EDO, health, Hyderabad, Dr Qadir Bux Memon, has directed the medical practitioners, private hospitals, and the private pathology laboratories to stop re-using disposable syringes, reports app.
