MIRPUR, AJK: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will see a five-day comprehensive polio eradication drive that will run nonstop till December 20th.
AJK State Health Department sources told APP on Monday that at least 742,500 children under five years of age are targeted to be administered the polio vaccine in all 10 districts of the territory.
Highlighting the salient features of the drive, the sources said that only in
At least 3,995 mobile teams of para-medical staff will be constituted to visit door-to-door to administer the polio vaccine drops during the campaign across the liberated territory – where a total of 448 fixed centres at local governments’ hospitals and subordinate health facilities, will be established by the State Polio Eradication Committee of the AJK State Health Services Department with the coordination of the World Health Organization (WHO), the sources revealed.
The total staff participating in the AJK-wide national drive included mobile teams comprising over 5,000 workers for visiting door-to-door to immunise the children of and under five years of age with the polio vaccine drops during the campaign, the sources underlined.
AJK fixed centres to be set up
The fixed centres would be set up at the state-run hospitals, basic health units, rural health centres as well as various other spots to vaccinate the children with the anti-polio drops, the sources elaborated.
A total of 169 transit points would be set up for conducting the drive under the supervision of the concerned area in charge, the sources said.
The state health department’s Polio Eradication Committee had made adequate arrangements to execute the polio-eradication campaign in a befitting manner, the sources said, adding that a total of 844 area in charge would supervise the drive at union council’s level across AJK in 35 tehsils and besides a total of 245 Union Councils throughout AJK State.
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A central polio control room has been set up in the office of the provincial program manager in AJK State’s metropolis of Muzaffarabad to monitor the drive and receive any complaints.
Polio drive in Mirpur
In Mirpur, at least 76,656 children under five years of age will be administered the polio vaccine.
Deputy Commissioner Mirpur Yasir Riaz Chaudhry inaugurated the campaign administrating anti-polio drops for children under five years of age at a special camp set up at the District Health Office.
“Over 431 mobile teams of paramedics in all 51 zones would visit door-to-door.” Mirpur DHO Dr Fida Hussain
District Health Officer Dr Fida Hussain informed the ceremony on this occasion that in the district, over 431 mobile teams of paramedics in all 51 zones would visit door-to-door besides serving at the 41 fixed centres and the 14 transit points to administer the polio vaccine drops to children under five years.
Earlier, chairing a meeting held here to give the final touches to the arrangements for the scheduled national polio eradication drive in this district, the DHO advised the parents to fully cooperate with the mobile teams of paramedics.
It may be added that the state health authorities claimed that there had been no case of polio disease to any child detected in any part of AJK over the last 24 years.
