Certificate to be issued by BPS-19 grade officer. PHOTO: FILE
In this regards, a special counter has also been set up at the Jinnah International Airport where health department teams will facilitate travelers for vaccination and certification, health officials informed The Express Tribune.
All the medical superintendents, district health officers and town health officers, not below BPS-19, were authorised to issue polio vaccination certificates.
The provincial government has taken immediate measures after a consultative meeting held with top health officials in Islamabad on Wednesday and after a thorough meeting with provincial officers on Thursday, Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed issued orders for passengers embarking on international travel. He added that the format of the certificates will be on international standards.
“The orders are being imposed immediately,” confirmed health department’s special secretary Dr Suresh Kumar. “All passengers will be facilitated at the airport.”
Dr Kumar said that all major hospitals, including teaching hospitals, are entitled to issue certificates. “There are no charges – the certificate is free of cost.”
The government mandated that those undertaking travel in next four weeks will be administrated a polio vaccine dose at the time of departure. All passengers leaving Pakistan regardless of their citizenship and age will be administrated vaccine.
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I do not believe that vaccination of adults will help in eliminating poliomyelitis virus. Let me explain why: The virus enters through the mouth and multiplies in the throat and gastrointestinal tract, then moves into the bloodstream and is carried to the central nervous system where it replicates and destroys the motor neuron cells. Motor neurons control the muscles for swallowing, circulation, respiration, and the trunk, arms, and legs. Allah made our immune system which protects itself and other cells by producing antibodies that engage the poliovirus, covering them and preventing the virus from interacting with another cells. What the vaccine does is to put a polio virus into our body in an in-active state, so that our immune system recognises the virus from an early stage, and can produce the anti-bodies later in our life, if we are attacked with the Virus. An adult is less likely to get infected, but by taking the vaccine he has high risks of getting VAPP, Vaccine associated paralytic polio, and this is common with people with low immune systems. Statistics shows that proper hygiene was responsible for the elimination of the disease and not any vaccine. While I was in Sudan, the govt. there would spend millions of malaria medicine, but would not bother to open drains and make way for rain water. There would be a puddle of water in front of every house. Proper hygiene and mothers milk is the best vaccine against any infection. But we are ruled by business enterprises who want to make a dime even out of our crap.
Somebody is going to get rich overnight through Int'l. passengers for issue of polio certificates.
laws, orders, notices, statements etc. is what the thugs of corruption party excel but when it comes to spending money on people and province especially Karachi's welfare thy don't leave a paisa going anywhere but to their pockets
Disgraceful what this country has fallen to. This is a clear result of years of appeasement to hard-line uneducated mullahs, and being scared to confront the mullah culture in society. Everyone is guilty of this, including Musharaff and the army, Bhuttos and Sharifs. Today Pakistan is a laughing stock all over the world, and this is another reason why. Polio certificates to be able to leave the country? Unbelievable.