AJK Govt. Taking Measures To Turn Region Polio-free State

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government is taking stringent measures to ensure that children under five years of age are being administered with anti-polio drops to make the country polio-free. In AJK, four-day anti-polio drive will begin from December 10.

MIRPUR (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Nov, 2018 ) ,:Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government is taking stringent measures to ensure that children under five years of age are being administered with anti-polio drops to make the country polio-free. In AJK, four-day anti-polio drive will begin from December 10.

This was decided in a meeting held in the office of Deputy Commissioner Mirpur, Sardar Adnan Khursheed here Monday to review the arrangements to make the anti-polio campaign successful.

In a similar meeting in AJK's capital town, District Health Officer (DHO) Muzaffarabad told that 124249 infants would be administered polio vaccines during the drive. For this purpose, 384 mobile teams would be constituted while 62 fixed sides and 19 transit points would be set up. The fixed sides and transit points would remain opened from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

29 Zonal Supervisors and 91 Area In-charges have been appointed for the anti-polio drive who will monitor the mobile teams and would provide them vaccines and other necessary material. They will also obtain the record of their daily performance every evening and forward it to district control rooms, set up for the purpose.

The DHO also appealed to the teachers, lawyers, members of civil society, parents, government employees and people of all walks of life to fully cooperate with the anti-polio teams during the drive. Dar claimed that AJK has been free from polio for the last 18 years. The people of district Muzaffarabad have been asked to contact at 921959-05822 or 8091525-0347 in case polio teams could not reach anyone's house or take the children to nearest EPI center for anti-polio drops, says a press release of Public Health Department.

Meanwhile another meeting to administer anti-polio drops to infants was held in Rawalakot which was addressed by Deputy Commissioner Poonch Shaukat Yousufzai and DHO Dr. Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan.

Dr. Daud told the meeting that district Poonch had been divided into 42 units to make the anti-polio drive a success. He said 296 mobile teams have been formed in 27 union councils of four tehsils of district Poonch. 89155 infants of 5 or below would be administered anti-polio drops during the four-day drive, he added.