Pakistan Postal's all 80 GPOs as special polio points

Under the Prime Minister's Action Plan for Polio Eradication, Pakistan Postal Services is the recent entrant to the anti polio fraternity.
A press release issued, here on Sunday, said that in the first phase of the handshake Pakistan Post declared all of its 80 GPOs (General Post Offices) across the country as special polio points by accommodating one polio team at each GPO premises for upcoming polio campaign (February 15 to 17-2010) to assure that the highest numbers of children possible were immunised.
Before this, Pakistan Post has been issued a commemorate postage denomination of Rs 5/- with photos of Benazir Bhutto and her daughter Asefa Bhutto Zardari in connection with the polio eradication campaign in Pakistan on October, 10, 2009. On that occasion, Muhammad Ahmed Mian Federal Secretary for Postal Services presented an Album of commemorative stamp to President Asif Ali Zardari at President House. The Ministry of Postal Services got published a half-page advertisement in the national press to felicitate the daughter of President Asif Ali Zardari and Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed for flattering ambassador for polio eradication in Pakistan by virtue of being the first child to be vaccinated against scourge.
Polio Eradication is the larger public health initiative, involving millions of health workers world-wide in a global campaign to rid the world of this disease that office crippled hundreds of thousands of children. In 1988 following a resolution of the World Health Assembly, a world-wide effort was initiated to defeat polio through mass immunisation campaigns. In Pakistan under the leadership of the Islamic World's first woman Prime Minister, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, a nation-wide drive was launched to defeat polio and save the children from being paralysed for life by a disease that is preventable.
The first round of the national polio eradication campaign was held on 27th April 1994. The then Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed launched the drive by administering the first polio drops to her youngest daughter Asefa who was 2 years of age then and setting an example for mothers of the country. Addressing the launch ceremony at the Prime Minister House, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto said "To me all Pakistan children are like Bilawal, Bakhtawar and Aseefa and although I am the country's Prime Minister, I am also a mother".