An Anti-polio campaign is set to commence across Tharparkar district from April 21 to April 26, 2025. In an effort to ensure the success of the campaign and raise public awareness about the dangers of polio, the District Health Department, in collaboration with the Tharparkar District Administration organized an awareness walk from civil hospital Mithi.
According to a handout, the walk was led by the Deputy Commissioner Tharparkar Abdul Haleem Jagirani, District Health Officer Dr. Lakhraj Sarangani, Additional DHO Dr. Bharat Kumar Soni, MS civil hospital Mithi Dr. Harish Jagani and PPHI District Monitoring Officer Dr. Hiranand along with other officials.
A large number of health workers, PPHI representatives, doctors, paramedical staff and civil society members participated in the walk.
Speaking at the conclusion of the rally, the Deputy Commissioner and other speakers emphasized that failing to recognize polio as a serious disease was a grave mistake, as it can cause lifelong disability in children, making them dependent on their parents for the rest of their lives.
They stressed that the only way to prevent polio was through vaccination, and urged all citizens, especially parents to cooperate fully with polio teams to ensure the campaign’s success.
On this occasion, the Deputy Commissioner and other officials administered polio drops to children at civil hospital Mithi, officially inaugurating both the anti-polio drive and the global immunization week campaign titled “Saving Lives Through Vaccination is Possible for Humanity,” which will run from April 24 to April 30, 2025.
Later, the DC convened a meeting at his office with health officials to review the arrangements for the campaign.
Separately, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) II, Faisal Ali Soomro has urged all the stakeholders including health department to work in coordination with each other to make anti-polio campaigns successful in the district.
According to a handout, he stated this while presiding over the meeting of the union council chairmen of the entire district to make the anti-polio campaigns successful here in the commissioner’s committee hall.
The ADC said by administrating two drops of anti-polio vaccine, the children could be protected from permanent disability, urging the parents to cooperate with police workers to immunize polio drops to their children up to five years of age.
All the UC chairmen assured possible cooperation to make the polio campaign successful.
WHO, Area Coordinator, Dr. Tahawur Abbas, Focal Person, District Control Room Polio Program, Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Deputy Director Local Government, Abdul Wahab Abbasi, UC chairmen of the entire district participated in the meeting.
