Anti-polio Drive Starts; 3,000 Police Personnel Performing Duties: CCPO

A three-day polio vaccination drive here Monday amid strict security measures, to vaccinate over 5.7 million children under the age of five, Coordinator Polio Vaccination campaign Abid Wazir said.

PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Sep, 2018 ) :A three-day polio vaccination drive here Monday amid strict security measures, to vaccinate over 5.7 million children under the age of five, Coordinator Polio Vaccination campaign Abid Wazir said.

Presiding over a meeting here, he said the campaign was also launched at camps of IDPs and Afghan refugees, he said adding that 21,858 teams of polio workers would administer polio drops to the children.

He said 19161 mobile teams, 1,620 fixed, 895 transit and 182 roaming teams would administer polio drops during the three-day campaign.

He appreciated that 32,000 personnel of police and security forces were performing duty with polio teams.

Abid said that due to efforts of polio workers, police and other departments including donor agencies, the polio cases were reduced to almost zero, adding that only one case was reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year but due to polio vaccination the 1 and half year old child remained protected from permanent disability.

He appealed parents to get their children immunized against polio and protect them from permanent disability.

Meanwhile, Capital City Police Officer said that police along with district administration was committed to eradicating polio from the province and performing the duty along with polio workers to get the province rid of the disease.

He said that various several police officials had embraced martyrdom during their duty with polio workers and teams but still the moral of police force was high.

He said the despite several security challenges, as many as 3,000 police personnel had been deployed for security of polio workers and to make the campaign successful.

The CCPO said that the law and order situation was verygood in Peshawar and other parts of the province as compare to past.