“In case of the management’s failure, we will have no other option but to replace the entire management and carry out efforts with a new team at every level,” K-P Governor Engineer Shaukatullah Khan. PHOTO: FILE
“In case of the management’s failure, we will have no other option but to replace the entire management and carry out efforts with a new team at every level,” he said while presiding over a high-level meeting held at the Governor House to review prevailing polio eradication efforts. Expressing his concern over the alarming situation, the governor said though successful campaigns were carried out in Bara, Khyber Agency and North Waziristan Agency (NWA) in September after almost two years, reports of 17 polio cases from NWA indicated a grave challenge.
“We also need to motivate people to be conscious of the severe consequences of polio,” he said, stressing it was imperative to ensure quality of vaccines.
About the refusal of locals to administer vaccines to their children in some areas of Fata, the governor said it was the respective administration’s responsibility to ensure polio teams do not face such problems and that action is taken against those who refuse.
On the occasion, the governor was informed out of 163,000 children in North Waziristan, 150,000 have been vaccinated, while in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency all the internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been fully vaccinated.
The meeting was attended by Federal Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar, Federal Health Services Secretary Imtiaz Enayat Elahi, K-P Chief Secretary Muhammad Shahzad Arbab, South Waziristan MNA Maulana Jamalud Din and two elders from North Waziristan Agency besides representatives of WHO, UNICEF and Pakistan Army along with political agents and FATA Secretariat officials.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 8th,2013.
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