Commissioner for anti-polio immunisation during Qalandar Urs celebrations.

HYDERABAD -- Hyderabad Commissioner Bilal Ahmed Memon here on Thursday directed the officers of concerned departments to make special arrangements of administering anti-polio drops to under aged children during Urs celebrations of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. He was chairing a meeting of Divisional Task Force for Polio to review the arrangements of special seven-days long polio eradication campaign to be started in all four talukas of Hyderabad district and Kotri Taluka of Jamshoro district from March 13, 2023.

The Commissioner said that tens of thousands devotees including children of under five year of age were expected to attend the three-day Urs celebrations of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. Therefore, special arrangements should be made for administering anti-polio drops for under-aged devotees, he said. He underlined the need of motivating the parents who refused the vaccination teams to administer anti-polio drops during to their under-aged children during the last campaign. He also issued strict directives for the...