Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar formally inaugurated the 3-day Sub-National Immunisation Campaign for Polio eradication; starting from Monday (tomorrow) in selected districts of the province as well as all the tribal agencies and certain frontier regions of FATA by giving polio drops to children in Peshawar on Saturday.
Governor said that it is a matter of grave concern that an increase in the reported cases of polio has been noted in our country during the current year, as against the preceding year. In the backdrop of the reality that the fatal disease has been wiped out from all over the world, he added, this is a matter of extremely grave concern that our motherland, Pakistan is not only numbered amongst couple of those countries where not only re-emergence of the disease has been noted but increase in reported cases has also be recorded.
Pointing towards a large number of health professionals, faculty members and students of the Khyber Medical College; the Governor said that prevention and care is far better than treatment and therefore, there is a dire need to make this campaign a real success. Provincial Special Secretary Health Noorul Aiman was also present on this occasion.
It is worth to mention here that under the campaign almost 36,72,628 children of up to five years have been targeted to be vaccinated in Buner, Bannu, Charsadda, D.I.Khan, Dir Lower, Dir Upper, Hangu, Haripur, Karak, Kohat, Malakand, Mansehra, Mardan, Peshawar, Swat, Swabi, Tank and Torghar districts of the province for which 11174 vaccination teams have been deputed, while in FATA 937329 children of the desired age in all the tribal agencies as well as frontier regions of Tank, Bannu, Kohat and Peshawar have been targeted for vaccination through 2778 mobile teams.
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