The managements of almost all elite private schools of the city have refused to allow polio vaccination teams to vaccinate children on the first day of the polio immunization campaign. "Without the permission of their parents, we will not allow students to be vaccinated," Regional Manager of City School Parveen Shah told Daily Times. "I personally believe in vaccinating the children even if they have been vaccinated by their families, but we cannot force families to do so," she maintained. The three-day polio vaccination campaign from October 14 to 17 was launched on Tuesday. The health department of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is supervising the campaign in the city, which is considered to be one of the 56 high-risk districts.
An official of the health department of the CDGK said that they have been facing problems in achieving their target because the administrations of private schools have refused to get their students vaccinated against the deadly polio virus. An official working for the Expanded Program on Immunization in Sindh revealed that after the detection of two P1 Type and one P3 Type cases in the city this year, one in New Karachi and one in Baldia Town, it was necessary that each and every child of Karachi gets polio drops.