RAWALPINDI: Deputy Commissioner Umer Jahangir on Wednesday directed the Health Department to devise an optimum micro plan for an anti-polio campaign to be started from August 6 to 10.
Chairing a meeting to review anti-polio arrangements, he said that as environmental samples for poliovirus tested positive in Safdarabad area in July, there is a need to revise micro plan on a scientific basis. He directed the officials to give special attention to those 34 union councils of four tehsils of the district which have been marked by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as low performing.
The DC said that polio was a national issue and it was the responsibility of all to play an effective role to make the country polio-free. On the occasion, District Health Officer Dr Uzma Hayat briefed the meeting that with the coordinated efforts of the government and WHO, polio workers have been trained to accomplish the target set of vaccinating 8,40,000 children below five years of age.
She said that quality based CRS test and analysis have been carried out of the five union councils of the Rawal Town. Sharing details of the arrangement for the anti-polio campaign, she said that 1878 mobile teams, 217 fixed points, 85 transit points, 168 union council medical officers and 405 area incharges would administer polio drops to above 840,000 children less than five years in the district.
