Deputy Commissioner Hyderabad Muatasum Abbasi reviewed the arrangements of three-day long Anti-Polio Campaign being started from May 16, 2016 in Hyderabad district. He has expressed his grave concern over the refusal from certain parents for immunising their children and directed to officers of all departments concerned to make sincere and dedicated efforts to bring the solution of such serious issue out so that the future generation could be saved from polio.
The Deputy Commissioner expressed these remarks while addressing the members of Polio Eradication Committee who met here at Shahbaz Hall on Thursday to review the arrangements of three-day long Anti-Polio Campaign. We should not be felt satisfaction only on data collections of the polio eradication campaigns but initiate practical measures to administer anti-polio drops to all children of under five years age with objective to save their future from this disease, he added.
He said that time of proper legislation has come to resolve this issue as the lives of children cannot be pushed into darkness on the reason that their parents not granted permission to immunise anti-polio drops to their children. He on the occasion asked the management of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to launch campaign against stray dogs so that polio vaccination teams could be saved from dog biting cases. The Rangers and the police should also play their vital role in providing security for protection of these vaccination teams, he added.
The District Focal Person on Polio Dr Masood Jaferi informed the meeting that a total of 3,10,599 children of under five years age will be vaccinated against polio in Hyderabad City, Latifabad, Qasimabad and Hyderabad Rural Talukas of the district from May 16 to 18, 2016.
A total of 860 vaccination teams have been assigned the task to immunise anti-polio drops to children of underage by visiting door to door, he informed and added that vaccination teams will also perform the same duty at 100 fixed points and 38 transit points of the district. A total of 209 Area In charges, including 117 female, 64 Union Council Medical Officers and 10 Taluka supervisors will monitoring the vaccination of children against polio, he informed.