Muzaffarabad: (Parliament Times) A meeting regarding Polio eradication campaign for next month was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Muzaffarabad Masood ur Rehman here on Thursday.
The meeting was attended by SSP Muzaffarabad Raja Akmal, SP Asif Durrani, District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. Kamran Riaz Dar, Deputy Director Development Authority Muzaffarabad (DAM) Shahzad Atta, Information Officer Syed Asif Hussain Naqvi, DEO Fauzia Khan, Mumtaz Naseem, Muhammad Rafiq, Ejaz Naqvi and others.
Polio campaign will be launched from 15-01-2018 to 18-01-2018 throughout the State in which 1 lac 21 thousand 3 hundred and 25 children under the age of five will be given polio drops.
In the meeting, DHO briefed the Deputy Commissioner Muzaffarabad that 352 mobile teams across the district would set up including 58 fix sites and 18 transit points saying that Fix centers and transit centers will perform their duties from 8:30 am to 4 pm.
He apprised the participants that 28 Zonal supervisors and 88 area officers have been appointed who will monitor teams along with provision of vaccines and other necessary goods to the field staff on time and they will gather the record from field teams in dusk and send it to district control rooms.
He said that area officer will be responsible for giving Polio and Vitamin A drops 100% to all children.
In this regard, Police deployments should be made possible on transit points to give polio drops to all those children who will be traveling on the scheduled dates and 8 zonal officers have already been deployed on district level.
It was decided in the meeting that the polio campaign control room will be set up in the Deputy Commissioner Office Muzaffarabad, in which officers will remain present from 8 am to 8 pm to fulfil this campaign on time leaving no any children absent from Polio drops.