A three-day polio vaccination drive under the National Anti-Polio Campaign would commence from December 19.
This was decided at a Sindh Health Department meeting on Saturday, presided over by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Polio Eradication Begum Shahnaz Wazir. Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed and Chief Secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas also attended the meeting.
Expressing concern over the rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the adviser stressed the need to take every possible step to make the anti-polio campaign a success. “The administration and Sindh Health Department officials have to make coordinated efforts for resolving the problem and make the anti-polio drive a success,” she added.
Emphasising on essential steps to be taken to help save children from polio, the provincial health minister said that during the campaign starting from December 19, around 6.5 million children in Sindh would be administered polio vaccine drops.
Shedding light on the collaborative steps taken by federal and provincial governments, institutions and welfare organisations for the eradication of polio, the Sindh chief secretary said that all measures should be taken to make Sindh polio-free.
