Lahore, October 24, 2022 (PPI-OT):Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi asserted that all are required to contribute to establishing a polio-free society and added that this responsibility should be fulfilled at all costs. In his message issued on Monday, the CM said that polio continues to challenge lives by crippling children’s lives. Today, we pledge to eradicate this disease from its roots; he stated and maintained that we could make society polio-free for future generations. Parents are requested to give their children anti-polio drops to protect them from the deadly disease, he added. He said: ‘I salute the polio workers working as vanguards in this war. Disability is very painful but it could be avoided with the polio vaccine.
The CM noted that the fight against polio is the battle for the future of the nation’s youth. The Special Campaign to Eradicate Polio (SNIDs) is starting today from Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Mianwali, Khushab, Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Layyah, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan, DG Khan and Rajanpur. This campaign would continue for seven days in Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Faisalabad and it would be run for five days in other districts, he mentioned.
Giving further details, he said that more than 97, 000 workers would administer anti-polio drops to 11. 18 million children less than five years of age. No polio case has been reported in Punjab for a long time, while its virus has been found in the environment of big cities (Lahore and Rawalpindi). The presence of the polio virus is a warning to parents to give their children two doses of the anti-polio vaccine during each campaign, he concluded.
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