Sindh to be polio free till next year: Chief Minister

Asifa Bhutto Zardari underlined the need for coordination, concentration and cooperation.


Our Correspondent July 17, 2012

KARACHI:


Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah met a 15-member delegation of the Rotary Polio Team from the United States as well as Canada at the CM House and ambitiously declared that polio will be eradicated from the province within the next financial year.


At the meeting, which took place on Tuesday, he highlighted the activities of the polio eradication programme in Sindh and said that the provincial health department has been asked to meet the target fixed by the government. President Asif Ali Zardari as well as Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf have been holding meetings to discuss how to tackle the disease, said Shah, adding that a grant worth Rs200 million will be provided by the Sindh government for the eradication of polio.

In her speech, the ambassador against polio in Pakistan, Asifa Bhutto Zardari, underlined the need for coordination, concentration and cooperation in order to eradicate the disease.

MNA Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, who is a member of the National Taskforce for Polio Eradication, said that around 7,498,143 children will be inoculated against the disease in the round of the campaign that will take place from July 16 to July 18.

To achieve this target, around 21,385 teams have been formed. She added that 4,138 motorcycles and 1,153 other vehicles are being used in the campaign, which was launched on Monday in 23 districts
of Sindh.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2012.

COMMENTS (4)

Eijaz Ali | 11 years ago | Reply

Good joke by our honorable chief minister,

map | 11 years ago | Reply

not necessarily an error by ET. Could be what the CM actually said!

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