ADC holds meeting for 5-day polio campaign in Sahiwal
District Health Officer Dr. Abdul Majeed Niazi and the officers of all relevant departments attended the meeting.
Sahiwal ( Sahiwal News Live – Dec 23, 2022 )
Additional Deputy Commissioner General Syed Usman Munir Bukhari holds a meeting regarding preparations for 5-day polio campaign in Sahiwal.
In the meeting, officers reviewed the preparations for the first 5-day polio campaign of the year from January 16 to January 20, 2022.
District Health Officer Dr. Abdul Majeed Niazi and the officers of all relevant departments attended the meeting.
Briefing the meeting, Dr. Abdul Majeed Niazi said that the target of giving polio drops to 5 lakh 21 thousand 638 children in Sahiwal district has been set.
Teams are formed to complete the target. He said that the teams would also be trained to make the polio campaign successful.
ADC General Syed Usman Munir Bukhari urged parents to vaccinate children under 5 years of age against polio to prevent them from lifelong disabilities.
He said that penaflexes would be displayed at different places to make people aware and announcements would also be made in mosques.
He said that during the training of the vaccination teams, they should clearly mark the door markings and the marks on the children’s fingers so that the officers do not face any problem during checking.
