Chairman Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Saturday that eradication of polio is inevitable for building a healthy society in Pakistan as well as standing with dignity in the ranks of the world community.
According to a statement issued by Media Cell Bilawal House, Chairman PPP in his message, on the eve of World Polio Day, said that it is an encouraging development that only one polio case had been reported this year so far and no such case had come to light for the last several months in Pakistan.
“It is the fruit of three-decades long hard struggle of workers of the anti-polio program, and the manifestation of the cooperation of the entire nation.
Bilawal urged that as a responsible nation, it needed to look at the factors that had put it on a par with the war-torn country Afghanistan, in terms of polio, for a long time.
“It is an unfortunate fact that public health was never among the priorities of the right wing parties, imposed in Pakistan”, he maintained.
The PPP chairman pointed out that eradication of polio from Pakistan was the dream of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, who had laid the foundation of anti-polio program in the country for the first time during her tenure.
“It is the mission of the leadership as well as workers of the Pakistan Peoples Party to make Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s dream a reality,” he concluded.
