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HYDERABAD, Feb 13 (APP):Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shaheed Benazirabad Zahid Hussain Rind presided over a meeting to review the arrangements for the national anti-polio campaign to be held in the district from February 26 to March 03.
Addresing the meeting Commissioner Zahid Hussain Rind said that the national anti-polio campaign started in the district from February 26 for making it successful the arrangements have been improved to administer polio vaccine to all children up to 5 years of age as per
the set target.
The Deputy Commissioner while giving instructions to the officers of the health department said that in view of the polio virus in the province, the micro plan of the national anti-polio campaign should be further improved and teams should be trained.
While informing the meeting, District Health Officer Dr. Asadullah Dahri and Focal Person for Polio Dr. Allah Bakhsh Rajpar said that a seven-day national anti-polio campaign is being organized in Shaheed Benazirabad district from February 26 to March 3. 420756 children of
up to five years of age of the district will be administered vitamin A along with vaccination against polio, 1192 teams have been appointed for this purpose. 53 transit, 54 fixed and 31 SMT teams are involved.
He further informed that all other arrangements are being completed except for the preparation of micro plan, training of the teams to make the national anti-polio campaign successful.
Asif Arain, Additional Director Social Welfare Muhammad Sabir Qureshi, Deputy Director Information Ghulam Abbas Gorahu and officers of the Health Department attended the meeting.