KARACHI: Polio Immunization and Vitamin A campaign was launched on Monday, 10 million target children in province, which will continue for a week.
About 2.4m children would be immunized against polio in Karachi who saw official launch of in campaign for provincial health minister Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho at Jannat Gul Hospital in Save Goth.
According to officials, drive is a part of in national immunization campaign, which gained more importance after the discovery of three cases of polio in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In Sind they said: special attention will be paid to the highrisk areas during testing of environmental sampling has been increased.
“Security for more over 75,000 vaccinators have been boosted up and over 5000 personnel will be actively engaged for goal. In addition, an attempt was made made attract people well versed in local languages. This will help win in confidence of local communities,” he said. official of Emergency Operations Center for Said the eradication of polio.
no case of polio has been reported in Sindh in in last two years he added.
According to health officials, polio vaccination camps have been set up in 40 places after Eid al-Adha at the entrance to the province points where 167 328 children travel in public transport has been vaccinated against polio
“Display of high-risk union adviсe of Karachi is ready. Officials were sent to give special attention to business of failures, including private schools, and official said.
Published in Dawn, May 24, 2022
