Secretary lauds Motorway police role in polio drive

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Federal secretary Health Khushnood Lashari has lauded the role of Motorway police in a three days campaign of polio eradication at the opening of the "anti polio campaign at motorway". He said that target of the government was to eradicate the polio disease till the end of year 2007 but the uncertain law and order situation in the country and unawareness about the disease failed the plan of polio eradication till the end of 2007. However, now government has targeted to eradicate polio disease till end of year 2010 with the help of UNO and World Health Organization. He said that 32 cases of polio were registered last year from all over the country while this year only 5 cases of polio disease have been registered in Sindh province. He requested to teachers, religious scholars and media to help in promoting awareness about polio in public, so that disease of polio can be eliminated from all over the country successfully. At the inaugural ceremony Inspector General of police Riffat Pasha said that they arranged 57 polio camps in the premises of highways and motorway in collaboration of health ministry and UNICEF. Muhammad Ibrahim representative of UNICEF in Pakistan said that polio eradication campaign is successfully operated in the country. He hoped that with in next three years polio disease would be eliminated from all over the Pakistan. Federal health secretary Khushnood Lashari inaugurated the anti polio campaign at Islamabad toll plaza.

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