Additional Secretary health speaks
- November 9, 2015, 10:23 pm
- Breaking News
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QUETTA Nov 9 (PPI): Quetta, Pishin and Killa Abdullah have become hub of Poliovirus. From today (Tuesday) three day anti polio campaign would be launched in these areas in which 2.472 million children of age upto five years would be administered anti polo drops.
This was stated by Additional Secretary health and Chief of AOC Dr Syed Saifullah at a Press conference at Commissioner’s office here Monday.
He said health Department in collaboration with donor agencies was doing its uto0most to make polio drive more effective. He said number of cases during current year is comparatively small. Durign 2015 25 cases were reported. Of these six cases were reported from Quetta, Killa Abdullah and Loralai. He aid launching polio drive along Pak-Afghan border was a problem which it has been resolved to a great extent. After contact with Afghan Government a 10 Member Afghan delegation visited Balochistan. It was agreed that joint efforts would be made to cleanse people of polio along the border between two countries.
He said still effective strategy as being evolved to improve anti polio drive. He said it is hoped that soon polio would be eliminated from the country.
He said better security arrangements would be made for the anti polio drive and all concerned would be paid TA/DA in time.
