While asking for revamping the polio eradication strategy in Islamabad, the Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Polio, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, said Friday that the water samples collected recently from Rawalpindi had shown presence of polio virus which a potential risk for the Islamabad residents since there were geographically close to the garrison city.
She took the decision of revamping the polio eradication strategy during a high level meeting with the Islamabad Chief Commissioner Tariq Mehmood Pirzada. Other senior Islamabad Capital Territory (ITP) officials including Deputy Commissioner Amir Ali Ahmed, senior health officials and representatives of the international partner organisations also attended the meeting.
She said that though Islamabad had not had a polio case in the last three years, the city could be vulnerable to the newfound threat.
Shahnaz advised that the commissioner to review the level of preparedness of the health staff for holding the next polio campaign starting from January 30th 2012.
Tariq Pirzada assured her of all possible support of the Islamabad Capital Territory administration in this regard. He said there was a need for meticulous planning to ensure that no child could be missed during the forthcoming and all subsequent polio campaigns.
Is need more and better anti-polio campaigns.
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