Anti Polio Drops Drive For IDPs Fail To Achieve Its End

RAWALPINDI: The district health department has did not register internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vaccinate kids coming back from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) against the infantile paralysis virus.

A five-day anti-polio campaign was launched from Midsummer Day to June twenty eight in sixteen union councils (UCs) in and around 

Rawalpindi, with the aim to immunise IDPs coming back into town. However, vaccinators according that no families 

were found within the district.

A senior health official told Dawn that the health department was wise to a couple of family from NWA that 

arrived at Fauji Colony last week. However, once health department and World Health Organisation (WHO) 

officials visited the colony, they found that there have been no kids with the family.

He additional that there have been reports of families inbound at Dhama Syedan on Adiala Road and cyprinid fish Bhatta, and that 

the health department would send groups to fulfill them.

He aforesaid the District Revenue Department was contacted by the health department to inquire regarding families 

arriving from the social group areas.

“The department is tracing the whereabouts of IDPs in city, however there area unit issues thanks to the dearth of 

coordination among the native administration and enforcement agencies,” he said.

Conversely, govt District Officer Health Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal told Dawn that the health department had 

vaccinated eighteen kids from NWA thus far.

“These families got hold of Ghari Sikandar, Taxila, bordering Attock district,” he said.

Gondal admitted that there have been reports of families inbound at Dhama Syedan, Adiala Road, and military quarters Ward 

No. 5.

“We decide to launch a campaign in unsound UCs from Gregorian calendar month seven to inject IDPs,” he said.

Gondal aforesaid over one,000 groups had been fashioned to launch the campaign in twenty six UCs, and special groups are going to be 

deployed at district entry points and bus terminals.

He additional that the provincial health department was upset regarding anti-polio campaigns within the province.

“If a toddler or family brings the infantile paralysis virus from their native space, it'll unfold within the province, especially 

in city division, that borders Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),” he said.