MARDAN: Commissioner Mardan Division Shaukat Ali Yousafzai has directed the concerned authorities to use all resources to make the Anti-polio campaign successful from January 8.
Appreciating the outstanding performance of Mardan Division in the previous polio campaign, he directed to make a good strategy for the upcoming campaign.
He was addressing a meeting of the Divisional Task Force for Polio.
Deputy Commissioner Mardan Muhammad Fayaz Khan Sherpao, DC Swabi Dr. Tariqullah, DPO Mardan Najibur Rahman Bagwi, DHO Mardan Dr. Javed Iqbal, DHO Swabi Dr. Abdul Latif, representatives of the World Health Organization and other relevant officials attended the meeting.
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The meeting briefing that 2041 teams have been formed to administer polio vaccine to 466 thousand children in Mardan district while 1188 teams have been formed to vaccinate 320 thousand children in Swabi district.
In the meeting further brief that since November 2020, no new cases of polio have been reported in Mardan division, while the environmental patterns of Mardan have also been cleared.
Commissioner Mardan Division Shaukat Ali Yousafzai has said that joint efforts will have to be made to eradicate the dangerous disease of polio and no obstacle will be tolerated in completing this national cause.
