Punjab Launches Limited Scale Oral Cholera Vaccination Campaign In Lahore.

LAHORE -- Director General Health Services PunAjab Dr. Haroon Jehangir Khan and Country Representative World Health Organization Dr. Palitha Mahipala forAmally launched the Oral Cholera VacAcination (OCV) Campaign in a Public School in UC 70 near Bund Road here on Wednesday.

The campaign is being conducted in selected 17 high-risk Union Councils of Lahore across 9 towns of the provincial metropolis in two phases. The phase-1 of the campaign is being conducted from 10-15 August (14th August will be day off). The campaign is being organized with the support of WHO and UNICEF. Present on the occasion were Director EPI Punjab Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Awan, EOC Coordinator Syeda Ramala Ali, UNICEF Health Specialist Dr. Tahir Manzoor, WHO Head of OfAfice Punjab Dr. Jamshaid Ahmed, ADCG Lahore Shahid Kathia, Director CDC Dr. Shahid Magsi, Director IRMNCH Dr. Khalil Ahmed, CEO Health Lahore Dr. Faisal, CEO Education Parvaiz Ahmed and staff from government and partAner organization. Explaining the backAground and rationale of the campaign, Director EPI Dr. Mukhtar said that the Oral Cholera Vaccine will be adminisAtered to all population of one year and above in the selected UCs. He said in order to stop the increasing number of AWD/Cholera cases in certain UCs, the technical experts recommended holding a case response. Vaccination, he added, was a cost effective public health intervention. He said total target for the campaign was 1.2 million and it would be conducted in the followAing UCs: Aziz Bhatti Town (Taj Bagh 57, Fateh Garh 44, Al Faisal Town 59), Cantt (W-8), Data Gunj Bux Town (Karim Park 69, Ganj Klar 70, Sanda Kalan 85), Gulberg (Al-Hamra 95), Nishter Town (Farid Colony 137), Ravi Town (Delhi Gate 27), Samanabad Town (Ichra 100), Shalimar Town (Chah Miran UC 19, Shadbagh UC 23, Faiz Bagh UC 25, Angoori Bagh 46), Wahga Town...