RCB president inaugurates anti-polio campaign

RAWALPINDI – A 5-day anti-polio campaign has been inaugurated by Station Commander Rawalpindi and President Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) Brig Salman Nazar here on Monday.

RCB president inaugurated the anti-polio campaign by administering polio drops to a child less than five years of age at Cantonment General Hospital (CGH) in a ceremony.

Cantonment Executive Officer (CEO) RCB Imran Gulzar and senior officials of health department were also present on the occasion.

RCB CEO Imran Gulzar informed that the campaign would continue till January 28 and a total of 572 polio workers would visit door to door to administrator polio drops to the children in all cantonment board areas.

“Some 470 children were administered polio drops at CGH today (Monday),” he said, adding that the polio campaign was launched under Pakistan’s Expanded Programme on Immunization with an aim to make Pakistan a polio free country.

He said that no polio case was reported in Punjab during last 14 months and only one case was reported in the remote area of Balochistan. To a question he said that the polio teams had been directed to adopt all possible precautionary measures and corona Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) during the campaign.

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