Crippling virus: Five-day anti-polio drive to commence next week

RAWALPINDI: A five-day anti-polio drive is set to commence in Rawalpindi district from September 24.

During the campaign, 2,181 polio teams will go door-to-door and administer polio drops to some 840,000 children who are less than five-years-of-age.

This was disclosed by the Rawalpindi Health Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Khalid Mehmood on Sunday.

He said staff deployed for the campaign have been handed special instructions regarding the drive and have been told that negligence in this regard will not be tolerated.

Dr Mehmood said that apart from the 2,181 mobile polio teams, there will 287 fixed centres and 287 transit points have been designated for this purpose.

Moreover, he added that 217 Union Council Supervisors and 448 area in-charges have also been deployed for the drive. A sufficient quantity of vaccines is available, and no stone will be left unturned in our efforts to make the campaign a success, Dr Mehmood said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 17^th, 2018.