[Dawn] The number of refusal cases in anti-polio...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
drive is alarmingly high and a comprehensive strategy and mechanism should be chalked out to bring these cases to zero level, said district coordination officer Nisar Ahmad here on Monday.
Chairing a meeting of district polio eradication committee in his office, the DCO expressed concern over the number of refusal cases and underlined the need for launching an awareness campaign to remove misconceptions and false rumours about the oral vaccine.
Health officials informed the meeting that two rounds of anti-polio campaign would be launched this month for which the department had finalised all sorts of arrangements. They said that the mobile, fixed and transit teams consisted of lady health workers, lady health supervisors, EPI staffers, volunteers and health employees who would immunise the target population of 126,564 kids under five years of age.
Mr Nisar directed the officials concerned to display the list of refusal cases in each health centre and ensure holding of polio eradication committee meetings on union council level. He said that the administration would not use police force for the coverage of refusal cases.