- PM expresses its resolution to eradicate polio at all costs.
- The national anti-political campaign will take place from February 3 to 9.
- Last year, Pakistan reported 77 cases of paralyzing disease.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif launched a young national anti-poolio girl for 2025 on Sunday by administering polio falls to children under the age of five.
Addressing the launching ceremony, Prime Minister Shehbaz reaffirmed the determination of his government to eliminate the paralyzing disease of the country.
He said the National Polio Vaccination Drive is targeting millions of children in the country to save their future and health. The national anti-political campaign will take place from February 3 to 9.
The Prime Minister hoped that dedicated teams would work day and night to eradicate the disease and reach distant areas and villages, adding that these teams would successfully meet the huge national responsibility using their full energies.
The Prime Minister said that, unfortunately, in the past year, a total of 77 cases of polio had been reported in the country which has become a huge challenge, in addition to posing a setback.
This year, only one case was reported, he said, and expressed the determination to eradicate polio at all costs, with teamwork and support dedicated to international partners.
The Prime Minister also expressed the hope that with international coordination and support, the paralyzing disease of the neighboring fraternal country, Afghanistan would end up.
He appreciated all international partners, notably WHO, UNICEF, the Bill Gates Foundation and the Fraternal Country of Saudi Arabia for their commitment and their efforts to the government in its efforts to eliminate polio.
Speaking on the occasion, the coordinator of the PM on national health services, Dr. Mukhtar Bharat, said that they had underlined the number of cases of polio which were reported last year and had not hidden from the international community.
He said that a positive result was felt with concerted efforts by every quarter and that one case has been reported this year.
He also appreciated the Prime Minister for his supervision without which they could not obtain the desired results.
For his part, the focal point of PM on the eradication of polio Aysha Raza Farooq declared that vaccination against polio was a public campaign in which all the segments of the company had to participate and urged parents to coordinate and Save their children from polio.
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