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Editor, Senior Moderator
PESHAWAR: The Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Barrister Masood Kausar on Monday underlined the need for serious and result-oriented efforts for eradication of polio from FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in line with the Action Plan at the country level, saying that it was the top public health priority of the government as being a national issue and must be taken as seriously as it deserves.?The people involved in the implementation on the Action Plan are fully accountable and they must ensure that the issue is addressed in the perspective of its significance and seriousness?, he stressed.He was presiding over a very high level meeting on National Emergency Action Plan for Eradication of Polio, wherein implementation process in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA at the gross root level was reviewed. Dr. Azra Afzal Pechuho MNA Convener Task Force Committee on Polio Eradication, Mrs. Asma Alamgir MNA member President?s Oversight Committee on Polio, Mr. Rahim Dad Senior Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Syed Zahir Ali Shah Minister for Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mr. Sher Azam Khan Wazir Provincial Minister, Ghulam Dastagir Akhtar Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Fazal Karim Khattak Additional Chief Secretary FATA, Dr. Imtiaz Ali Shah Provincial Focal Person for Polio, Commissioners, DCOs, Political Agents and officials from Health Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA attended the meeting. Dr. Elyas Durray from WHO, Dennis King from UNICEF and Dr. Waqar Ajmal from Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation were also present in the meeting.Secretary Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Munir Azam and Secretary Administration and Coordination FATA Abid Majid briefed the meeting on the efforts for polio eradication at the districts and Agencies level and highlighted the current state of arrangements in this regard. They said that the high risk areas had been properly focused by holding special campaigns besides Short Interval Additional Dose Strategy.Case response campaigns were also held in Torghar and Bannu districts after the emergence of fresh cases. It was further stated that in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 75 % UC target had been achieves besides covering refusals. As regard FATA the meeting was told that Bajaur and Kurram Agency had 100 % coverage. Since most of the tribal area is inaccessible 28 transit teams have been deployed at different points to cover children coming from inaccessible to accessible areas.
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