SWAT: Federal Secretary Health Nadeem Mehmood visited Swat on Wednesday and chaired a high-level meeting on the anti-polio campaign at the Commissioner’s Office in Saydu Sharif.
Regional Police Officer Malakand Division Irfanullah Khan, Deputy Commissioner Swat Shahzad Mehboob and District Health Officer Swat Dr Muhammad Saleem besides other relevant officials were also present in the meeting.
Area Coordinator Malakand Division WHO Dr. Khawaja Irfan while briefing the meeting said that the polio campaign has been going on successfully since October 28 in Malakand Division and polio drops are being given to children under five years of age during the campaign.
Formation of teams and security arrangements for the polio campaign were also reviewed in the meeting.
The Federal Secretary Health expressed satisfaction with the performance of the campaign so far and paid tribute to the district administration, police, polio teams and workers and said that a public awareness campaign is very important for the elimination of polio virus so that the public and especially the parents. Encourage your children to get polio shots.
He said that eradicating the deadly polio virus is a joint and national duty of all of us.
Therefore, the role of polio teams and parents is very important in the complete elimination of polio virus.
Earlier, Federal Secretary Nadeem Mahmood administered polio drops to the children.
