PESHAWAR
\nCommissioner Mardan Division, Shoukat Ali on Wednesday chaired a meeting to discuss arrangements and preparation for upcoming anti-polio campaign starting from Nov 27.
\nThe meeting was also attended by Deputy Commissioner Mardan, Abdur Rehman, Deputy Commissioner Swabi, Gohar Ali and representatives of WHO and health department.
\nParticipants of meeting were informed that 770000 children of below five years that are residing in Mardan and Swabi would be administered polio vaccine in the campaign. It was told that 3300 polio teams have been deputed that would be escorted by 4000 policemen.
\nSpeaking on the occasion, commissioner directed foolproof security arrangements for polio workers and stressed joint efforts to wipe out the crippling disease.
\nHe also directed concerned department to provide all the needed help to polio workers and said that dereliction of duties in this connection would not be tolerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Commissioner Mardan Division, Shoukat Ali on Wednesday chaired a meeting to discuss arrangements and preparation for upcoming anti-polio campaign starting from Nov 27. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Commissioner Mardan, Abdur Rehman, Deputy Commissioner Swabi, Gohar Ali and representatives of WHO and health department. Participants of meeting were informed that 770000 children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n