Rawalpindi: Provincial Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare and Population Welfare of Punjab, Dr. Jamal Nasir has said that we should all fight together against polio and ensure a healthy future for our children.
Provincial Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare and Population Welfare of Punjab, Dr. Jamal Nasir speaks during a seminar on December 21, 2023. — Facebook/Jamal Nasir
He said that the fight against this dangerous disease can be achieved only through joint efforts and the current campaign will continue for one week in Rawalpindi, Lahore and Faisalabad while it will continue for five days in other districts of Punjab, says a press release.
He expressed these views while speaking on the occasion of the inauguration of the first anti-polio campaign of 2024. Dr. Jamal Nasir inaugurated the campaign by administering polio vaccine drops to children at Awqaf Plaza Rawalpindi.
On this occasion, CEO District Health Authority Rawalpindi Dr. Ijaz Khan, Coordinator WHO Dr. Shumila, DHO Dr. Ehsan Ghani, DDHO Dr. Hasnain Tirmizi, DDHO Dr. Naveed, District Khatib Hafiz Muhammad Iqbal Rizvi along with other officers were also present.
Provincial Minister Dr. Jamal Nasir said that the first anti-polio campaign of the year has started in all the districts of Punjab and during the campaign 2 crore 2.5 lakh children will be administered polio drops in Punjab. He said that 1 million 50 thousand children will be given polio vaccine in Rawalpindi. He said that parents must give polio vaccine to every child under five years of age.
Dr. Jamal Nasir said that no case of polio has been reported in Punjab after 2020, thanks to continuous efforts, polio has been eradicated from the whole world except for two countries, and in the two countries polio still exists today and these countries are Pakistan and Afghanistan. He said that polio workers are our valuable asset and despite severe cold, polio workers are rendering services in remote areas.
The provincial minister said that historic development works are being done in Rawalpindi and the Holy Family Hospital will be opened at the end of this month. Development fund has been approved for various departments including OPD in Benazir Bhutto Hospital. Work on Rawalpindi Ring Road is progressing rapidly. Work has also been started on Dadhocha Dam to alleviate the water shortage. Work on 58 dams in Rawalpindi division is going on. As many as 26 schools are being upgraded in Rawalpindi to improve the quality of education. Mobile van service has been started to check patients from place to place and 1400 patients are being checked daily through mobile vans. Quota of journalists has been restored in Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology.
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