Anti-polio drive from Sept 21
A five-day anti-polio campaign will commence from September 21 across the district. A meeting led by Additional Deputy Commissioner Revenue (ADCR) Tayyib Khan was held to review the anti-polio drive on Saturday. While talking to the media, the ADCR said that the presence of poliovirus in Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur is alarming. He directed officials to focus on flood-hit areas, transit points at railway stations, bus and wagon stands during the drive. Khan asked the officials to keep in view the coronavirus SOPs and adopt a modern approach during the drive. The chief executive officer health, while giving a briefing, said polio vaccine drops will be administered to over 900,000 children under five years of age.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2020.