The civic authority’s chairman said the city’s urban slums were high risk areas which would need to be tackled carefully.PHOTO: FILE
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will work with partner organisations to completely eradicate polio from the capital by utilising all available resources, said the authortiy’s chairman Tahir Shahbaz according to a press release.
Shahbaz was presiding over a meeting of the District Polio Committee at CDA Headquarters on Friday.
The meeting was attended by representatives of Islamabad Traffic Police, ICT administration, health department Rawalpindi, Polyclinic hospital, capital hospital Unicef, WHO and other stakeholders.
The civic authority’s chairman said the city’s urban slums were high risk areas which would need to be tackled carefully.
He further highlighted that Islamabad is maintaining its polio free status since 2008 and he will make sure that it remains this way.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2013.
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