Our Correspondent
Multan/Larkana
The presence of the poliovirus was confirmed in sewage samples of Ali Town and Suraj Miani of Multan. Thirty thousand children missed polio vaccine during the last campaign in Multan. The Department of Health has developed a strategy for convincing parents in the first phase and filing lawsuits in the second phase during the October 26 campaign if they continue to refuse the vaccine. The health department also registered cases against three parents during the last campaign.
All-out arrangements have been finalized as more than 3,06850 children in the district upto five years of age would be vaccinated Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) during the polio campaign starting from October 26, to save them from the crippling disease. This was disclosed by the District Health Officer (DHO) Larkana Dr. Aijaz Ahmed Shaikh here on Sunday.
He said the children upto five years of age would be administered OPV during the three days campaign. He said 812 mobile teams had been constituted which would visit all the areas of the district to accomplish the task. He further said that polio teams had also been constituted in the city to cover children during the campaign. DHO Larkana said that 82 transit polio teams had also been constituted in the district in that regard and they would be available at railway station, bus stops and various markets of the district during the campaign.
He exhorted the parents to be cooperative with the visiting mobile polio teams to make the national anti-polio campaign complete success.
