A three-day polio vaccination drive will be carried out in high-risk areas of Rawalpindi from Monday (today). Under the special campaign, more than 200,000 children will be given polio drops, informed health officials.
Polio teams will cover high-risk areas in 27 union councils of Rawalpindi city, cantonment areas and Taxila tehsil, Executive District Officer (EDO) Health Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal said on Sunday.
He said the influx of a high number of people from North Waziristan and other parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, coupled with reports about the presence of polio virus in some areas, has led them to launch the special drive.
Gondal said the health department was tracing whereabouts of internally displaced persons in Rawalpindi but they are facing problems in locating them due to lack of coordination among various departments. The EDO said around 1,365 mobile teams have been formed to carry out door-to-door vaccination.
“Special teams will also be deployed at entry points and bus terminals to make the drive a success,” he said, adding that sufficient vaccine supplies have been placed at the disposal of the polio teams. In the recently concluded regular campaign, he said, 711,744 children were given polio drops.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2014.
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