Polio eradication drive begins in AJK's 2 major districts.

MIRPUR [AJK] -- Like various other districts in the country, 05-day national polio-eradication campaign had been launched in two major districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) including Mirpur and Muzaffarabad on Monday which would be continued till June 11.

In the lake districts of Mirpur, the State Health Authorities have set the target of administrating the anti-polio drops to a total of 63, 741 children of under five years age.

Talking to reporter here, the State Health Services spokesman underlined that no case of polio disease had emerged anywhere in AJK for last two decades.

'The Mirpur district has been divided into 28 zones with the induction of the one supervisor in each zone to implement the drive, ' he said and added that one Ward Incharge would supervise the campaign in the determined area falling in each Union Council in the district.

A total of 70 Union Councils / Ward Incharges will look after the campaign in all 70 union councils of the district.

Elaborating the district-wise anti-polio drive, Dr Fida Hussain said that a total of 286 mobile teams of paramedical staff involving over 450 para-medical workers had been constituted while 33 fixed centres and 14 transit points have been set up in the district to immunize the children with the anti-polio vaccine.

The mobile teams, he said, would visit door to door by strictly acting upon the already devised SOPs in view of the still prevailing but controlled COVID-19 in the state, to administer anti-polio drops to children under five years of age.

He said that Catch up teams would remain alert to administer the polio drops on the fourth and fifth days.

The State Health Services Department has invited the parents to cooperate the visiting mobile paramedic teams to make the...