Deputy Commissioner Amer Ali Ahmed has appealed to the parents to get their children vaccinated against polio and extend their full cooperation to the mobile teams during the upcoming four-day anti-polio drive starting from March 12 in the rural and urban areas of the capital. In a press statement, he said that it was responsibility of parents to get their kids vaccinated against polio. Anti-polio drive will be launched in Islamabad from March 12.
Earlier, he reviewed and finalised the arrangements made for administering anti-polio campaign. The meeting was attended by the representatives of the World Health Organisation, officials of CADD, the Capital Development Authority, DHO Dr Azhar, Islamabad Traffic Police officers, the assistant commissioners and magistrates. DC Amer Ali Ahmed was told that polio drops would be administered to 102,000 children in the 12 union councils and 125,000 children in the urban areas of Islamabad during the up-coming drive.
The meeting was told that 322 mobile teams for the rural area and 500 mobile teams for the urban area had been constituted, which would conduct door-to-door visits for vaccination. As many as 12 zonal supervisors for the 12 union councils of Islamabad with the active participation of notables of the area and 55 areas in charge would monitor the performance of mobile teams headed by the assistant commissioners and magistrates.
It was also told that, according to the WHO report, the ICT administration achieved 97 per cent target during the previous anti-polio drive in the rural areas whereas the CDA achieved 93 per cent target in the urban area during the last drive.
