Tag: Eradication

CM orders deployment of environmental police

Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that dengue eradication was a challenge and an effective strategy along with a short, medium...

Japan promises sustained support to polio eradication

A delegation of Japanese parliamentarians, currently on a visit to Pakistan, met with top officials, experts and representatives of international donor agencies on Wednesday...

Plan Int’l, UNCEF join hands for polio eradication

An inception workshop on “Early Recovery Programme for Rural Sanitation in Flood Affected Districts of Pakistan” was held on Friday here at a local...

Polio eradication a priority, says Hoti

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti has said the government, in its campaign to eradicate polio, is following the policy of encouraging officers...

Japan to provide $65m for polio eradication

Japan on Monday decided to extend a soft loan of 4.993 billion yens (approximately $65 million) to Pakistan for polio eradication. An accord in...

Eradication of polio PML-N’s priority: advisor

The eradication of polio is the priority of PML-N’s National Social Development Programme, senior advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab, Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan...

3-day polio eradication campaign from 18th

A three-day polio eradication campaign would be launched in the Mirpurkhas division on July 18. Around 800,000 children below five years would be administered...

Aseefa for commitment to polio eradication

Administrating polio drops to the children at the President’s House on Monday, Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, who is Pakistan ambassador for polio eradication, emphasised the...

Poverty eradication is BISP’s philosophy, says BISP DG

Director General Punjab Shahid Aslam Mohar has said that BISP was started for the welfare of the poor people and the theme of the...

3-day polio eradication campaign launched in KP

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister Masood Kausar formally launched a Three-Day Polio Eradication Campaign at a ceremony held at the Governor's House Peshawar on Monday with a target to vaccinate 4.9 million children under five years of age in the province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). To achieve this target, 22,512 teams will be supervised by 13,000 trained lady health workers who have been engaged to reach each and every child of the desired age during