Polio drive

Recommend parents be arrested if they deny child’s right to immunisation

No police official had been deputed with the team

3.5m children to be inoculated in 13 high-risk districts

Around 1,900 security personnel would be deployed to guard the polio workers

Traffic police and SHOs have been directed to arrest anyone who is caught driving an unregistered motorcycle

The suspension orders were issued by Shangla Additional Deputy Commissioner Farhatullah Marwat

The CDA’s health directorate has devised a special monitoring mechanism to supervise the campaign

98 fixed centres and 21 teams at transit points under 63 medical officers will be involved in the drive

He said 1,298 teams had been constituted for this purpose

5.2 million children will be administered polio drops in K-P and 0.9 million in Fata and the Frontier Regions

The DCO said it was important to cover every child

16,442 teams will facilitate last campaign of the year

The drive against the crippling disease will continue until December 16

The teams administered drops to 15.7 children below five years of age

Policemen have been attacked while performing duties as part of polio teams in various areas of the metropolis

The three-day national immunisation drive was scheduled for November

CM directs Sindh IG to provide security as well as lunch and transport facilities to the teams

Health officials said 50 families had turned away polio teams

Rangers also arrested 17 suspects during various raids in the city

Three-day campaign conducted amid tight security

Salman Rafique said no polio case had been detected in the province this year

Local elders have been advised to cooperate with the 137 teams that will administer polio vaccines to infants

Participants of the meeting were told that 1,195 children of nomads had been registered for the anti-polio vaccination

The campaign had been initiated in collaboration with the political administration and Frontier Corps