SUKKUR: Sindh Polio Over Sighting Committee Chairperson Dr Azra Pechuho on Monday reviewed the polio eradication campaign in all the districts of northern Sindh.
She was presiding over a meeting to review the performance of Polio Task Force at the deputy commissioner’s office.
Sukkur Commissioner Muhammad Abbas Baloch, Fayaz Ahmed Jatoi, deputy commissioners of Sukkur, Khairpur and Ghotki districts, DHOs, representatives of WHO and UNICEF, NGOs, officers of education and social welfare departments were also present at the meeting.
Pechuho urged the participants to make the campaign a success and discharge their legal and moral duties to make the country polio free.
She said children should be protected from lifetime disability and for that purpose, they will have to go even remote and far-flung areas.
She added that the teams must be provided proper police security while they were on duty to administer polio drops to children below 5 years of age.
She said that the Sindh government was giving top priority to eradicate the menace of polio completely from the province.
She asked the officials to give special attention with personal monitoring of polio and campaigns against epidemic diseases in their respective districts to ensure their eradication.
She said that despite challenges, the situation in northern Sindh is improving through better monitoring and surveillance.
4-DAY DRIVE STARTS IN BALOCHISTAN:
A four-day anti-polio drive has started in Balochistan, in Pishin, Qilla Abdullah, Mastung and Quetta on Monday.
According to Radio Pakistan, the Polio Emergency Operation Centre Provincial Coordinator Syed Faisal Ahmed told that nearly 800,000 children up to five years of age will be administered anti-polio vaccination during the drive.
He said nearly four thousand teams have been constituted to administer the vaccination to the children at their doorsteps.
