KARACHI, Sept 5: Sindh health Minister, Maj-Gen Ahsan Ahmad, on Thursday, the second day of the three-day national anti- polio drive visited the outskirts of Karachi, including Memon Goth‘, Malir, Ibrahim Hyderi and other areas to review the pace of the campaign.

Speaking on the occasion, the minister said that serious efforts were on for the eradication of the disease from the country in general and the province in particular and special attention was being paid by the authorities concerned to the underprivileged areas of the city.

Ahsan Ahmad lauded the doctors of the health department, EDOs, UNICEF, Rotary International, WHO, Nazimeen and councillors as “it is primarily owing to their efforts that the country will become polio free by the end of the current year.

He said that so far 30 national anti- polio drives have been carried out and in every round some 25 million children across the country, including 8.4 million in Sindh, under age of five, were administered polio drops. EDO health Dr Ali Nawaz Sheikh also accompanied the minister during the visit.—PPI