4-day Anti-polio Drive Successfully Continues In AJK

The nation-wide 4-day anti-polio drive successfully continued on 3rd consecutive day in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday

MIRPUR (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Apr, 2019 ) : The nation-wide 4-day anti-polio drive successfully continued on 3rd consecutive day in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.

More than 7.11 lakh children of under 5 years of age across AJK will be administered the anti-polio vaccine, official sources said.

The national anti-polio drive will target 39 million children of under 5 years of age in all four provinces, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.

The AJK Health Services department's teams were visiting every house in all ten districts to administer polio drops to children upto 5 years age.

In the capital district of Muzaffarabad, 1,24,249 children upto five year age will be administered anti-Polio vaccines and Vitamin -drops and for this purpose 359 mobile teams have been constituted and 58 fixed and 19 transit points have been set up by Polio Eradication Committee, the State Health Department sources told APP here.

The state health department's Polio Eradication Committee have made adequate arrangements for the polio-eradication drive. The campaign will continue till April 25 (Thursday).

According to details, the AJK health authorities have set a target to immunize at least 7.11 lakh children under 5-year of age with the anti-polio vaccine throughout the area.

Highlighting the salient features of the four days anti polio campaign in AJK, the sources said that over 2004 mobile para-medical staff teams have been constituted and whereas 397 fixed units and 124 transit points at prominent public places including buses and wagons stands were set up in all ten districts of Azad Jammu Kashmir including Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Hattiyan (Jhelum valley ), Neelam valley, Kotli, Bagh, Sudhanoti, Haveili, Bhimbher and Rawalakot to administer the anti-polio drops during the three-day drive in entire Azad Jammu Kashmir.

At least 63 zonal supervisors will look after the campaign conducted by 481 in charges of different areas in AJK. Besides, the parents will also got their children fed with the anti-polio vaccine drops at the fixed centres close to their homes including hospitals and district and tehsil health offices, The fixed centres have been setup at the hospitals, basic health units, rural health centres etc.

to vaccinate the children with the anti-polio drops from 8.00 a.m to 4.00 p.m.

In Mirpur, 216 mobile teams comprising para medical staff besides the fixed centres were engaged in administering the anti-polio vaccine to the targeted 70263 children of under 5 years of age in Mirpur district .

The health department sources underlined that there had been no any case of polio disease to any child was detected in Azad Jammu and Kashmir during last 19 years.

Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has already devised an integrated plan to ensure the State to be absolutely a polio-free zone.