KARACHI: Reiterating his commitment to eradicate polio from Sindh, the chief minister has directed all the divisional, district administration and health officials to work harder to ensure that their respective jurisdictions are clean and that vaccines are administered to all vulnerable children. ?This is a national war, and we have to win it!?
Addressing a meeting of the provincial task force for polio eradication at the new Sindh Secretariat on Tuesday, CM Syed Murad Ali Shah said that only Pakistan and Afghanistan were on the list of polio-stricken countries, as the rest of the world had been declared free of the crippling disease.
?With our pragmatic measures we have achieved some better results, but the polio virus still exists in various parts of the province, including Karachi, for certain reasons, such as high refusal rate, migration from Balochistan and Afghanistan and inefficient garbage lifting services.?
Provincial Coordinator for polio Eradication Fayaz Jatoi told the meeting that Karachi?s first polio case of 2017 had surfaced in August in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and the next in November in Gadap.On this Murad directed the city commissioner to ensure that garbage lifting started in District East, particularly in the affected localities of Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Gadap.
01-10-2018, 06:42 PM
Murad stresses importance of winning national war on polio
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