CS for getting 100 percent target of next drive of vaccination

  • November 4, 2015, 7:56 pm
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QUETTA: The Chief Secretary Balochistan, Saifullah Chattha has directed to secretaries of all the provincial government departments to supervise the forthcoming polio immunization campaign personally particularly in the areas where the desired results of the previous campaign were not achieved. He asked all the concerned to make the immunization campaign more effective finding the reasons behind not achieving the target during the last campaign.
Mr. Chattha was chairing the meeting held to review the preparations of the next anti-polio campaign in the province. Those, who were in attendance, were included: Secretary Health, Noorul Haq Baloch, Secretary Education, Abdul Saboor Khan Kakar, Deputy Commissioner Zhob, Nazar Muhammad, Deputy Commissioner Killah Abdullah, Khuda-e-Dad Khan, representative of World Health Organization, Dr. Anwar Bugti, District Health Officer, Quetta, Dr. Shah Jahan Panezai, District Health Officer, Killa Abdullah, Dr. Sultan, Dr. Masood Khan, besides other concerned.
Addressing the meeting, the Chief Secretary said that although the arrangements made for the previous polio immunization campaign for satisfactory, yet we need to identify the reasons behind least coverage of routine immunization in the previous campaign, he maintained.
He said that polio is a fatal disease which can be prevented, so we should make sincere efforts in this regard.
Mr. Chattha also stressed the need to engage the teachers from Education department in the polio immunization campaign, if needed so in case of shortage of the staff.