EPI launches 12-day EOA in KP merged dists.

Peshawar -- Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Directorate of Health Services Merged Areas in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) started a 12-day Enhance Outreach Activity (EOA) in merged districts and sub-divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to control the 10 vaccine preventable children diseases.

The main objectives of EOA is to build immunity of the community against the 10 vaccine preventable diseases like Childhood Tuberculosis (TB), Polio, Diarrhoea, Pneumonia, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Tetanus, Hepatitis-B, Meningitis, Diphtheria, Measles in the merged districts through vaccine. The 12-day EOA has started from June 15 and will continue till June 27, 2020.

The activity was formally inaugurated by Dr Hafeez Ullah, Programme Manager EPI, in South Waziristan. He also visited various EPI centers and monitored EOA sessions executed in different areas of South Waziristan district. Talking to the...