Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: The health and local administration officials have urged all the segments of life to play their due role in up-coming polio vaccination campaign to eradicate the lethal disease from the area.
Assistant political agent, Khalid Mumtaz Kundi, told The News in a special interview that they had a meeting with the local elders, ulema and members of civil society along with the health officials to chalk out a strategy for the coming polio campaign. He said that objective of the meeting was to obtain cooperation and moral support of the stakeholders in the forthcomings polio campaigns in Khyber agency.
Kundi said that total 1, 54000 children would be administered polio drops in coming campaign already scheduled from January 30 to February 2. He said 462 teams have been comprised to administer polio drops to the children below five years.
He urged the parents to administer polio drops to their children if they want to save them from the crippling disease. He asked the elders, ulema and other stakeholders to come forward to overcome form the challenge face by the Pakistani nation. He considered it a national motto and pursues even a single parent to feed polio drops to their children. He lauded the integrated efforts of all sections of the society had extended to them to uproot the disease in the past and vowed that their serial assistance to the health department would make possible for it to wipe out the disease from the area.
Meanwhile, Khyber agency polio in-charge, Dr Azam Wazir, said that polio was incurable disease which has suffered a large numbers of children in developing countries. However, he quit optimistic to finish polio from Khhyber agency during the current year. He said though it was a hard challenge for them to completely root out polio from Khyber agency but they will not tolerate any ignorance from any health official in this regard,
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