Swabi’s martyred women polio vaccinators remembered

Top cop, administrator visit families of martyrs as vaccination drive kicks off

Top administrator and police chief of Mardan visited the families of two lady health workers who were martyred in a targeted gun attack during a polio vaccination campaign in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Swabi district last year. 

RPO Yaseen Farooq and Commissioner Montazir Khan visited the homes of the martyred LHWs and offered condolences to the bereaved families.

Gunmen riding on motorcycles had targeted the LHWs while they were vaccinating children in Swabi district last year.

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RPO Farooq and Commissioner Khan assured the bereaved families of all possible assistance and cooperation on behalf of the administration. They also administrated anti-polio jabs to children and reviewed security arrangements for the vaccination campaign across the district.

DPO Swabi Muhammad Shoaib Khan and DC Shahid Mahmood Khan were also present on the occasion.

On Monday, the provincial government kicked off a five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign to vaccinate around 6.4 million children aged up to five years across the province.

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According to the health department, over 29,000 teams have been constituted to achieve this target and special emphasis would be laid on areas showing refusal cases besides ensuring strict implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) against coronavirus.

A total 29,000 teams including 25,980 mobile teams, 1,909 fixed, 1,052 transit teams while 146 would be roaming teams for effective monitoring of the campaign. As many as 7,133 area in-charges have been deputed. Foolproof security measures have been adopted to provide security cover to the anti-polio workers.