Sehat Ka Insaf programme: over 635,000 children administered polio drops in Peshawar

Around 3,382 teams of health workers on Saturday administered more than 6,35,000 children oral polio vaccine (OPVs) under the fourth round of 'Sehat Ka Insaf' programme, which was carried out in 77 Union Councils of district Peshawar. Due to security concern, the fourth round was carried out on Saturday instead of Sunday, for which tight security steps were taken to avert any untoward incident during the ongoing awareness campaign regarding eight childhood disease in Peshawar.
The district administration completely banned the ridding of motorcycle, while around 3,000 police personnel were deployed for protection of the polio vaccination teams. For immunisation of anti-polio drop, more than 3,382 teams have been constituted in the fourth round of Sehat Ka Insaf Programme, including Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Razakar (volunteers), lady health visitors and other health workers. Whereas more than 1,250 health hygiene kits, including soap, towels, and water gallon, were also distributed among 3,000 targeted families in 77 Union Councils of the district.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Health Shaukat Yousafzai inaugurated the fourth round of the special anti-polio drive at Hujra of MPA Fazl-e-Elahi, here on Saturday. On the occasion, PTI workers and a large number of notables from various constituencies of district Peshawar, were also attended the inauguration ceremony. The awareness has been created among a large number of families through Sehat Ka Insaf programme in Peshawar.
For the campaign, a sum of Rs 20 billion has so far allocated, a complete package under which more than 12,500 free kits would be distributed among 3,50,000 families that would protect them from nine disease. Talking to media persons, the KP Minister for Health said the government would launch special campaign for elimination of polio, where the campaign was not carried yet under the Sehat Ka Insaf programme. He said that the adoption of our model by the government of Sindh was appreciable and we offered technical assistance in this regard. He appealed to parents to get their children vaccinated against polio and protect them from paralysis and death.