Divisional Commissioner Sardar Akram Javaid took notice of the fact that 3,659 children had not been vaccinated during the recent anti-polio drive in Faisalabad district.
He ordered the Health Department, specifically the executive district officer to look for the children and administer them polio drops. Javaid was told that “the Health Department had constituted 2,762 teams to give anti-polio drops to children up to the age of five, but despite a three-day anti polio drive from January 20 to 22 and January 23 and 24 as sweeping days, the Health Department teams failed to administer polio vaccine drops to 3,659 children” in a meeting on Saturday. The commissioner also directed the department officers to involve union council secretaries to look for the children. He said the teams should not rest till all the children up to the age of five years had been vaccinated. The commissioner also directed the Health EDO to chalk out a comprehensive plan for the next round of the anti-polio drive so as to ensure 100 per cent vaccination.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 2nd, 2014.