Targeting 115 UCs: Four-day polio drive kicks off today
Strict security measures put in place for campaign.
A policeman stands guard as a member of a polio vaccination team administers drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Karachi. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
KARACHI:
A four-day anti-polio campaign will start on Tuesday (today) in 115 union councils of the city.
All the arrangements, including security measures, for the drive were finalised on Monday. After the attack on polio workers in Qayyumabad on January 20, the campaign was postponed. The health officials then launched a new plan and administered drops to children in separate union councils of the city.
According to the new security plan, 24 UCs were declared high-risk areas, where polio workers completed the task on the last two Sundays with the help of police and Rangers personnel.
The campaign will be launched in different UCs of Gadap, Jamshed Town, Korangi, Landhi, Shah Faisal, Saddar, Lyari, Gulberg, Liaquatabad, Nazimabad, New Karachi, Orangi, Keamari, SITE, Bin Qasim and Malir.
Sources in the health department confirmed that all arrangements were completed. “We are ready and will complete the target successfully,” he assured. Officials of the Extended Programme on Immunisation didn’t comment on the arrangements. The campaign will continue till March 7.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2014.
A four-day anti-polio campaign will start on Tuesday (today) in 115 union councils of the city.
All the arrangements, including security measures, for the drive were finalised on Monday. After the attack on polio workers in Qayyumabad on January 20, the campaign was postponed. The health officials then launched a new plan and administered drops to children in separate union councils of the city.
According to the new security plan, 24 UCs were declared high-risk areas, where polio workers completed the task on the last two Sundays with the help of police and Rangers personnel.
The campaign will be launched in different UCs of Gadap, Jamshed Town, Korangi, Landhi, Shah Faisal, Saddar, Lyari, Gulberg, Liaquatabad, Nazimabad, New Karachi, Orangi, Keamari, SITE, Bin Qasim and Malir.
Sources in the health department confirmed that all arrangements were completed. “We are ready and will complete the target successfully,” he assured. Officials of the Extended Programme on Immunisation didn’t comment on the arrangements. The campaign will continue till March 7.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2014.