Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has finalised arrangements for the three-day anti polio drive being launched in the rural areas of Islamabad from Monday. The arrangements were reviewed and finalised in a meeting chaired by Deputy Commissioner ICT Amer Ali Ahmad here on Sunday.
The meeting was attended by the District Health Office (DHO) and in charge of all rural health centres, BHUs including the area in-charge and supervisors of the mobile teams.
Amer Ali directed the health department ICT to use all available resources to make the drive successful in the rural area of ICT and continuously kept doing more and more to achieve the 100 per cent target. DHO informed the meeting that health department ICT has made elaborate arrangements for the 100 percent coverage of the children against the crippling disease in the rural areas of Islamabad.
He informed that a total of 85,454 children would be immunised against the polio in the rural area of ICT.
The meeting was informed that 218 mobile teams have been activated in the rural area. These teams would visit door to door in the far flung areas for the coverage against the polio.
Moreover, 12 union councils of ICT have been divided into seven zones and seven zonal supervisors including 41 area incharge have been assigned the special task to achieve the target of immunisation against the polio. Besides this, 30 static centers and nine transit points have also been set up in the rural areas of Islamabad.
The teams would daily submit the progress and achievement report to the Chief Commissioner Islamabad Kamran Lashari and Deputy Commissioner ICT Amer Ali Ahmed.
Lashari and Amer Ali have directed the district health authorities and the mobile teams to ensure the 100 percent coverage of the children against the polio and make it a fully successful campaign. Local Government and Rural Development Department ICT was directed also to extend full co-operation to the mobile teams for the vaccination of the children. Meanwhile, ICT administration has appealed to the parents to get their children vaccinated against the polio and save them from the crippling disease.
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