Polio eradication campaign to be launched on Nov 4.

NAWABSHAH -- Anti-Polio campaign to be launched in District Shaheed Benazirabad from November 4 for which all arrangements have been finalized.

Deputy Commissioner Shaheed Benazirabad Abrar Ahmed Jafar chaired a meeting to finalize arrangements for polio campaign. Addressing the meeting, Deputy Commissioner said that up rooting of polio was a national duty and for that purpose all concerned departments have to perform their duty honestly to eradicate polio so that we can get rid of this deadly disease and protect coming generations from disabilities. Deputy Commissioner said that negligence would not be tolerated during the anti-polio campaign, which would start on November 4. He said that polio cases were appearing in Sindh province which was a matter of concern.

He said that eliminating of polio requires for more work. He said that all the departments, including health department should play their role in making the polio campaign a success. He instructed Union Councils' Medical officers and area in-charges to avoid submitting fake figures of polio campaign and provide immediate information in of refusal of any child so that steps could be taken to administer polio vaccination to these children.

Deputy Commissioner instructed health department to take steps to make the typhoid vaccination campaign successful, which begins November 18. Earlier District Health Officer Dr Moeenuddin Sheikh briefing the meeting said that more tha 361,033 children under the age of five years would be administered polio drops during the anti-polio...