Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid on Sunday appealed to parents to get their child immunized against crippling Polio to avoid lifelong disability.
Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid declared that making Pakistan a polio free country is a mission of the PTI government, saying that all-out resources would be utilised to protect the children against crippling disease who are, in fact, future of the country.
She informed that all necessary measures are being taken to make Punjab Polio free. “A clean and safe environment for children is the foremost priority of the government and all stakeholders are striving to achieve the goal of polio eradication.”
Dr Yasmin emphasised that the role of parents is pivotal and they must get their children vaccinated to safeguard them from poliovirus. “
Parents must cooperate with health workers.” The health minister further said that the government has been endeavouring to achieve 100% vaccination target. “Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar want to make Pakistan Polio free.”
Dr Yasmin said that at a time when pandemics like Corona and Dengue have posed great threat to the public, people, especially the parents should come forward and protect their children against the crippling disease.
“Everyone should extend support and cooperation to the government efforts to protect our children and provide them a healthy environment as they are future of the nation.
Meanwhile, Punjab Minister Local Government and Community Development Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed said that success in drive against Corona can only be possible if maximum number of people is vaccinated.
Keeping this in view Punjab government is going to launch a special Corona Vaccination Campaign from October 25 to November 12.
The minister said that 12,000 teams will go door to door for inoculating vaccine, adding that this drive is being started in all districts of the province and 14,000 new vaccination centres are being established throughout the province.
Moreover, social workers will also provide assistance to the vaccination teams. Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed appealed to the public to get benefit from this initiative and complete the corona vaccination and protect themselves and their families from this pandemic.
He said that corona virus has so far taken more than 12,000 lives in Punjab. By vaccinating maximum people, we can not only move faster towards normal life but also avoid other social restrictions and lockdowns, he added.
