Polio refusals decrease in Dera Ismail Khan

PESHAWAR: Deputy Commissioner Dera Ismail Khan Nisar Ahmed Khan has said that refusals in the district has come down drastically while in FR Dera Imail Khan zero refusals have been recorded as the district administration stand committed to polio eradication and was taking every measure to stamp out the crippling disease from the region.

During the recent campaign that ended on April 1 2015 only 17 refusals were recorded in the district that would be covered soon as we don t let these refusals linger on he said while talking to APP.

Nisar Ahmed Khan said that life of polio workers is very important and district administration was providing them every possible security adding that it was his mission to make Dera Ismail Khan polio free and for this every child in the district has to be vaccinated.

He said no polio case has been reported in Dera Ismail Khan District during the last couple of years except one that too was in a migrant family.

According to the Deputy Commissioner, Dera Ismail Khan is spread over approximately 7,000 sq km divided in 47 union councils and five Tehsils with target population of about 0.3 million for polio vaccination for which more than 600 polio teams have been constituted.

Nisar Ahmed Khan opined that the in order to eradicate polio virus we have to give our 100 percent and we have taken appropriate steps to stop transmission of the virus in the district.