The National and Punjab Emergency Operations Centre coordinators have appreciated the performance of polio teams and voiced hope that due to their hard work polio will be eradicated from Pakistan very soon.
Both the coordinators spent had a meeting in Lahore on Thursday in connection with the Sub-National Immunisation Days and visited high-risk union councils in Nishtar and Gulberg towns.
The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) Coordinator Dr Shahzad Baig visited union council 143 of Nishtar Town.
He met with polio teams, checked their route maps, micro-plans, vaccine cold chain and moved house-to-house with a few polio team members.
Speaking to the polio teams, the national coordinator called for overhauling of the micro-plans in every campaign.
“Focus should be laid on incorporating minute details in the micro-plans. The micro-plans need to be redone every campaign to encompass new social and operational realities,” he stressed.
The national coordinator called for making government health facilities more effective teams’ support centres.
“The essential immunisation should continue simultaneously during the campaigns at the team support centres. The essential immunisation should not suffer during polio campaigns,” Dr Shahzad emphasised.
Dr Baig interacted with the parents at households and urged them to cooperate with polio teams working to eradicate polio from Pakistan.
“Security and dignity of polio teams is the priority of polio programme which will be ensured at all costs. Zero tolerance will be shown for harassment of polio teams,” he underlined.
On the other hand, Punjab EOC Coordinator Khizer Afzaal Chaudhry visited Gulberg Town to monitor campaign.
Afzaal visited Hameed Latif Hospital and monitored polio teams deployed in the hospital.
He also visited a nomadic settlement and moved along polio teams from house to house.
During his interaction with polio teams, he urged them to stay vigilant so that no child was missed.
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