Tag: Polio campaign

VIDEO: Babar Atta under fire for ‘favouring’ sister who refused polio...

Prime Minister’s (PM) Focal Person on Polio Eradication Babar Atta on Saturday was criticised for promoting favouritism regarding the registering of a first information...

SAFRON ministry asked to release Khasadars’ salaries to end polio campaign...

ISLAMABAD: The Khasadar force’s threat of boycotting polio campaign in the tribal district of South Waziristan in protest against non-release of their seven month-salaries...

Cash-strapped Khasadars boycott polio campaign, threaten to vacate checkposts

ISLAMABAD: In what seems to be an unfortunate development, the Khasadar force in the trouble-hit South Waziristan district on Thursday decided to boycott the...

Polio campaign to be carried out in 10 district of Punjab

LAHORE: Punjab will hold a polio campaign in 10 districts from October 30 to November 3, said Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare Khawaja Imran...

Doctors warn of boycotting anti-polio campaign in Badin

Demands fierce action against DC   Badin doctors on Monday announced to boycott the upcoming campaign of polio vaccination until the transfer of Badin deputy commissioner...

Anti-polio campaign starts from Jan 11

  Deputy Commissioner (DC) Khairpur, Fayyaz Abbasi has said that anti-polio drops would be administered to 15507 children during a three-day campaign starting from January...

Punjab to hold polio campaign in five districts from 27 June

Punjab will hold polio campaign in five southern districts of the province from 27 June to 4 July as part of case response to...

Health secy lauds clerics for helping govt fight polio

Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Federal Secretary Muhammad Ayub Sheikh said on Saturday that Ulema played a vital role in fight...

4-day polio campaign kicks off in rural areas

Under the supervision of the district administration, a four-day anti-polio campaign in the rural areas of the Islamabad district will begin today. According to district...

Gates all praise for Khan’s ‘Sehat Ka Ittehad’ polio campaign

In a letter sent to Imran Khan, Bill Gates commended the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman on his commitment to the eradication of the polio...

Arrangements finalized for five-day polio campaign

Rawalpindi health authorities have made comprehensive arrangements for the five day anti polio immunisation campaign beginning on Tuesday. More than two thousand teams have been...

2 more polio cases surface, campaign starts in South Waziristan

A three-day anti-polio campaign on Monday has been launched in the Wazir and Mehmand areas of South Waziristan after around 30 months, as two...

PM House denies report of polio eradication deadline

ISLAMABAD- The federal government on Thursday denied that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gave a six-month deadline to eradicate polio from the country during a...

As toll rises, provinces unwilling to part with lucrative anti-polio programme:...

   As Pakistan’s polio toll this year climbed to 231 with confirmation of four more cases, nearly all international observers have admitted that the polio...

Polio spike courtesy of Govt: PM took six months to appoint...

  ISLAMABAD- Taliban militants have long been the scourge of Pakistan's polio vaccination campaign, attacking aid workers and the police who protect them as they distribute...

Cricketer Misbah-ul-Haq backs UNICEF’s polio campaign

DUBAI: Pakistan cricket captain Misbahul Haq Friday pledged his backing to the international bid to rid the world of polio. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency...

The desperate struggle of Pakistan’s polio martyrs

ISLAMABAD- Nadia Khan treasures two photos of her sister Sumbal: one showing her bright-eyed and smiling, the other blank-faced in death after she was...