Caretaker Chief Minister of Balochistan Mir Ali Mardan Khan Domki on Sunday said that every member of the society should actively participate in the anti-polio campaign so that our future generation will be free from diseases like polio. Expressing his best wishes for the polio campaign starting in Balochistan, he directed the commissioners and deputy commissioners of all districts to focus on the anti-polio campaign and especially supervise the polio campaign in respective districts so that no child was left out of drinking anti-polio campaign drops.
Mir Ali Mardan Khan Domki urged the parents to complete the immunization course of the children along with the polio vaccine to avoid polio and other dangerous diseases. Chief Minister Balochistan has asked parents, scholars, political circles, and media to take full part in anti-polio and provide awareness that our country could be free from polio soon. Meanwhile seven daylong polio eradication drive will be started from today October 2, 2023 in all talukas of Hyderabad district with active participation of all stakeholders.
This was informed by the Commissioner Hyderabad Khalid Haider Shah who informally inaugurated the drive by administering anti-polio drops to under five year age children here at Government Shah Bhitai Hospital Latifabad on Thursday. He said that though no case of polio has been reported from any part of Sindh since last three years as a result of untiring efforts of all stakeholders but vigil should be continued in order to make the province polio free forever. The initiatives being taken by the administration and department concerned to root out the polio are being appreciated at various forums, he said and added despite such appreciation, the stakeholders should work hard in this regard.
