Polio eradication govt’s top priority: CM
Law enforcement agencies, departments directed to support programme
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PESHAWAR:
With 21 polio cases reported from across the province, including the tribal districts, the provincial government decided on Friday to make all-out efforts to eradicate the polio virus from the province.
This was directed in a high-level meeting on polio in Peshawar on Friday. The meeting was attended by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Secretary Saleem Khan, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Shahab Ali Shah, MPA Ziaullah Bangash, Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) Coordinator Captain (retired) Kamran Ahmed Afridi, and other relevant officials of the polio programme. K-P Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chaired the meeting.
Mahmood reaffirmed his government’s commitment to eradicate polio from the province. He directed all government departments to undertake necessary steps to eradicate polio from the region.
He further called for all-out efforts to ensure polio teams access every house and every child in the province. Moreover, law enforcing agencies and other relevant government departments were directed to extend their complete support to the polio eradication programme.
The chief minister further stated communication efforts should be made keeping in view the local context and cultural sensitivities while all queries and doubts of parents should be addressed so that every child is vaccinated in every anti-polio campaign.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2019.
With 21 polio cases reported from across the province, including the tribal districts, the provincial government decided on Friday to make all-out efforts to eradicate the polio virus from the province.
This was directed in a high-level meeting on polio in Peshawar on Friday. The meeting was attended by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Secretary Saleem Khan, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Shahab Ali Shah, MPA Ziaullah Bangash, Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) Coordinator Captain (retired) Kamran Ahmed Afridi, and other relevant officials of the polio programme. K-P Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chaired the meeting.
Mahmood reaffirmed his government’s commitment to eradicate polio from the province. He directed all government departments to undertake necessary steps to eradicate polio from the region.
He further called for all-out efforts to ensure polio teams access every house and every child in the province. Moreover, law enforcing agencies and other relevant government departments were directed to extend their complete support to the polio eradication programme.
The chief minister further stated communication efforts should be made keeping in view the local context and cultural sensitivities while all queries and doubts of parents should be addressed so that every child is vaccinated in every anti-polio campaign.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2019.