Staff Reporter Peshawar
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Health & Finance, Taimur Saleem Jhagra while appreciating the remarkable achievements in the war against polio Tuesday stressed the need for putting in specific strategy to track missed children in high risk districts to help ensure vaccination to all target children under the age of five.
He said this in Provincial Task Force meeting on Polio at the Chief Secretary Office, says a press release issued here.
Chairperson Provincial Assembly Standing Committee on Health, Ms Rabia Basri, TAG Chairman, Jean Mark, IGP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Moazam Jah, Secretary Home KP, Ikramullah, Principal Staff officer To CM Amjad Ali Khan, Secretary Finance KP, Atif Rehman, Secretary Health KP, Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, Secretary Elementary Education, Yahya Akhunzada, CCPO, Abbas Ahsan, Add Secretary Health (polio) Abdul Basit, Director EPI, Dr Arif, UNICEF country Chief of Polio, Hamesh Young, DG Health Dr Niaz, Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners of all divisions were present on the occasion.
Taimur Jhagra said that after a long time real and tangible progress have been made in the war against polio as most of the environmental samples are negative indicating that virus transmission is stopped in the high risk districts of the province.
He said that it was due to the tireless efforts of the frontline workers, guidance and ownership of the government that no wild polio virus case has been reported from the province for more than year now.
However, he added that negligence and complacency would not be tolerated as it might lead us back to the outbreak situation.
