District admin ordered by KP govt to ensure safety of vaccinators.

PESHAWAR -- The provincial government has instructed district administration to take effective measures for safety of health workers to ensure quality polio vaccination campaign starting from November 18 in four districts of the province.

Chief Secretary Dr Kazim Niaz expressed the confidence in a meeting that divisional and district administration would lead the health staff towards carrying out a comprehensive effort to eliminate poliovirus from the province.

The meeting held here on Monday with the chief secretary in the chair was attended by chairperson of Standing Committee on Health of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Dr Sumaira Shams, administrative secretaries, commissioners, national and provincial coordinator of Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), director of expanded programme on immunisation and representatives of Unicef, WHO and other partners in polio eradication initiative, said a statement.

Anti-polio drive to be launched on Nov 18 in four districts

Dr Kazim said that district polio control rooms should lend the required stewardship to the field staff during the case response drive in Kohistan Upper, Kohistan Lower, Kolai Palas Kohistan and Torghar districts.

'The vaccination will boost up children's immunity to stay safe from being infected with poliovirus, which is in circulation in the region. The highest quality campaign is key to success. No laxity will be tolerated in the scheduled drive to achieve the objectives,' he said.

The chief secretary directed the health department to include pay raise for the frontline workers in the PC-1 before December so that...