PM Shehbaz kicks off nationwide anti-polio drive

PM Shehbaz kicks off nationwide anti-polio drive
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif kicked off national anti-polio vaccination campaign by administering polio drops to children at an event in Islamabad on Friday.

Speaking on the occasion, he urged parents to get their children under the age of five vaccinated to eradicate polio from the country.

The Prime Minister lauded the efforts of polio workers for elimination of the menace from the country. He paid rich tribute to those who sacrificed their lives in the line of their duty in fight against polio. He also thanked the health department and polio teams in this regard.

Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, Minister for National Health Services Abdul Qadir Patel and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb were also present on the occasion.



from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/NnJsXev
https://ift.tt/jrenMH5 admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) https://ift.tt/NnJsXev

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pakistan reports 641 covid cases in last 24 hours

Image
Pakistan has reported two deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 1,535,785. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 30,395 on Thursday. According to the latest figures by the National Institute of Health (NIH), at least 641 persons were tested positive for COVID-19 across the country in the past 24 hours. Pakistan has conducted 18,813 tests in the past 24 hours out of which 641 persons were tested positive for the disease. The COVID Positivity Ratio was recorded at 3.41 percent. from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/j7hRwbe https://ift.tt/yJ9MhTU admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) https://ift.tt/j7hRwbe
Read more

Sindh to launch world’s largest vaccination drive against measles from Nov 15

Image
In a bid to protect the children from measles and rubella, the Sindh government has decided to launch the world’s largest immunization drive against contagious diseases in the province from November 15. As many as 38 children have died from measles in the province so far during the current year. During the 12-day vaccination drive, 19 million children from 9 months to 15 years would be given mandatory shots of measles and rubella vaccine, officials said Monday. In addition to this, two drops of polio will also be given to 8 million children under five years of age in this campaign. Measles, which is one of the most contagious diseases in the world, has so far claimed 38 lives in Sindh in the first nine months of the current year alone while 2,489 cases were reported in the province. “To prevent more deaths, every child would be given a shot of Measles and Rubella vaccine from November 15-27, 2021 in the province,” Project Director of Expanded Program (EPI) Dr Irshad Memon on Immu...
Read more

AstraZeneca antibody cocktail succeeds in study to treat COVID-19

Image
AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 drug has helped cut the risk of severe disease or death in a late-stage study, the British drugmaker said on Monday, a boost to its efforts to develop coronavirus medicines beyond vaccines. The drug, a cocktail of two antibodies called AZD7442, reduced the risk of severe COVID-19 or death by 50% in non-hospitalised patients who have had symptoms for seven days or less, meeting the main goal of the study. AstraZeneca’s therapy, delivered via injection, is the first of its kind to show promise both as a preventative medicine and as a treatment for COVID-19 following multiple trials. It is designed to protect people who do not have a strong enough immune response to vaccines. “These positive results show that a convenient intramuscular dose of AZD7442 could play an important role in helping combat this devastating pandemic,” Hugh Montgomery, the trial’s principal investigator, said in a statement. Similar therapies made with a class of drugs calle...
Read more