Minister for National Health Services Abdul Qadir Patel on Friday called upon the concerned quarters to focus their efforts on remaining bottlenecks and meeting the last remaining challenges in finishing job of polio eradication in the country.
Chairing a meeting, the minister said that Pakistan has surmounted the most daunting of challenges and we are now well poised to stop transmission of the poliovirus. Earlier, Polio Emergency National Coordinator Dr. Shahzad Baig gave a detailed briefing on the current status of the Polio Eradication Program. He said that there has been a major decline in polio cases as in last year only one polio case was reported in the country while our efforts must continue till reaching zero case.