Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid said that people's support is crucial for eradication of polio in the province. “The government alone cannot achieve this target.”
She stated this in a meeting with a delegation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the committee room of Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD) on Wednesday.
The health minister added that polio campaign was underway currently in the province. "Polio drops are being administered to children across the province and districts bordering other provinces are under special focus," she informed the meeting. She further said that all commissioners and deputy commissioners were personally supervising the polio campaigns in Punjab. "Our teams are going door to door to vaccinate children in endemic areas," she added. She highlighted that all teams had been directed to cover all minors including guest children.
She urged the parents to fully cooperate with the mobile teams and visit fixed centres if the anti-polio teams somehow missed a child.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2020.
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