Pakistan will soon be polio-free: minister
Polio vaccinators, carrying bag of vaccines and documents to collect data, walk through a neighbourhood in Karachi at the start of a nationwide inoculation drive. Photo: Jalal Qureshi/express
Caretaker Federal Health Minister Dr Nadeem Jan Saturday said his ministry was providing and utilising all available resources to eradicate the crippling disease from Pakistan permanently till the end of the year 2023.
“Polio-free Pakistan is a national goal which is now close to our mission of ending polio,” he added.
The caretaker government is making all-out efforts to root out the polio virus from the country, he assured and urged the citizens to cooperate with polio teams to eradicate the crippling disease from the country.
“The health ministry has been actively involved in the polio programme in the past few months and we will ensure that the focus on polio remains unwavering.
We are regularly holding awareness drives and religious workshops in which we are collectively working with religious scholars to build community trust and convey vaccine safety and efficacy in communities around Pakistan,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2023.