KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister  Murad Ali Shah  launched province-wide anti-polio campaign at National Institute of Child Health (NICH). Minister Health Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, Aziz Memon, Secretary Health Zulfiqar Shah, Commissioner Karachi Iqbal Memon and others were present. Campaign will be in two phases starting from Karachi and Hyderabad which would continue till August 21.

Later phase would begin from August 22 and would continue till August 28 for remaining districts of Shaheed Benazirabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur, and Larkana divisions. CM said that under campaign oral polio drops would be given to over 9.9 million children under 5 years. “In drive, 33,982 teams along with 9,137 supervisors will be participating across province,” he said and added 3,556 partners’ staff from  different organizations would be deployed for supportive supervision and monitoring.

Shah out of target of over 9.9 million children, more than 2.4 million children in city. Murad Ali Shah termed it a great achievement for his government and Emergency Operation Centre, Sindh (EOC) that all  environmental samples from our province have been negative. “Sindh has not reported any polio case since July 2020 and has had continuous negative environment samples for past one year,” he said.

He said that if they continue with same momentum and spirit, government would further see significant results. “Children can be protected from childhood crippling diseases like polio through vaccination and we seek every stakeholder’s help to raise awareness for purpose,” he said.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 16 2022

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