Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Muhammad Ali has lauded the performance of the Rawalpindi Health Department in making the anti-polio cam-paign a success and said that a third party survey has declared the recent polio campaign in Rawal-pindi as 98% successful. He said that during the entire campaign, parents of only eight children had refused to vaccinate their children up to the age of five, against two of them FIRs have been registered.
He said this while presiding over a meeting in which the results of the recent polio campaign were reviewed. The meeting was attended by Chief Ex-ecutive Officer District Health Authority Rawal-pindi Dr. FaizaKanwal, District Health Officer Dr. EhsanGhani and other concerned officials.
Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Ali said that four children could not get polio vaccine due to medical reasons and all this success was possible only with the teamwork and hard work of Rawal-pindi Health Department. He said that no polio virus was found in the environmental samples of Rawalpindi which is a welcome step and a proof of successful campaign. He said that the health de-partment of Rawalpindi should continue its efforts and in order to be polio free, it was necessary that no case of polio be reported for three consecutive years and no polio virus be found in the environ-mental samples.
