An important meeting was held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah at Sindh Secretariat on Thursday.
Additional Chief Secretary Home Qazi Shahid Pervez, Secretary Health Kazim Jatoi, Secretary General Administration Muhammad Hanif Channa, Secretary Colleges Khalid Haider Shah, Secretary Food Abdul Haleem Sheikh And all the Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners have attended the meeting.
During the meeting, the officials of the health department and food department have briefed the meeting about the vaccination campaign in the province, the vaccination campaign against corona virus in educational institutions and the price of flour.
Referring to the vaccination campaign, the Health Secretary said that so far 1 crore 37 lakh 59 thousand people in the province have been given a single dose of vaccination.
He informed the meeting that 8.2 million people so far have been fully vaccinated in the province.
School education department officials informed that so far, 132,000 students have been vaccinated in Sindh schools.
In the meeting, Secretary College Education Khalid Haider Shah said that 65,000 college students of the province have also been vaccinated and now all the newcomers are also being vaccinated.
At the meeting, all the Deputy Commissioners said that the Education Department should ensure the attendance of students in schools so that they can be vaccinated.
In the meeting, Chief Secretary Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah said that vaccination should be made compulsory for private educational institutions. He directed all Deputy Commissioners to achieve their vaccination targets.
Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah said that now a door to door campaign should be started and the target of vaccination should be met in any case. The meeting was briefed on the price of flour in Sindh province.
The Chief Secretary said that the Sindh government has fixed the ex-mill price of flour in the province at Rs 54 per kg and the retail price at Rs 55.
Shah directed all the commissioners to set up fair price shops in their respective districts. He said that supply of flour at fixed rates would be ensured in all cases. Indiscriminate legal action will be taken against those who increase the price of flour bags.
